September 9, 2024
An understanding of AI is increasingly essential to the practice of business law, but staying up to date with every AI development is, simply put, impossible. Thus, the Editors of the 10-Q have decided to put together a frequently updated “AI Hub” for business lawyers.
Examining issues at the intersection of AI and business law, the 10-Q’s AI Resources for Business Lawyers page (bookmark it!) contains links to AI-related content we consider especially valuable for business law practitioners and students, organized by category, and often sourced from friends of Temple’s business law community.
We will continue to update frequently. If you come upon AI-related content you think may be especially valuable to business lawyers, please send us the link. This special coverage is in addition to the ordinary business law content by and about the Temple business law community published by The Temple 10-Q each week.
The State of AI and the Law:
- PwC, 2024 AI Business Predictions
- Bloomberg Law, Big Law Is Questioning the ‘Magical Thinking’ of AI as Messiah (08/24)
- Thomson Reuters Law, AI and the practice of law: Major impacts to be aware of in 2024 (07/24)
- Bloomberg Law, How Is AI Changing the Legal Profession? (05/24)
- Benjamin Mishkin (LAW ’12), Christopher Dodson, Matthew Klahre, Andrew Baer, Cozen O’Connor Cyber Law Monitor, AI: What You Need to Know (podcast) (05/23)
Regulation:
- Akin, AI Law & Regulation Tracker (running tracker of the latest Al & ML developments to keep readers informed about policy, law and other events shaping the rapidly changing AI landscape)
- The Conversation, The rise of the ‘machine defendant’ – who’s to blame when an AI makes mistakes? (08/24) (highlighting the importance of those corporations that have profited most from the development of AI being made responsible for its costs and consequences)
- Tech Brew, What the EU’s landmark new AI law means for US tech companies (08/24)
- Bloomberg Law, Google Monopoly Ruling to Carry Influence in Emerging AI Field (08/24) (regarding United States v. Google LLC, D.D.C., No. 1:20-cv-03010, 8/5/24)
Banking:
- The National Law Review, Child’s Play: Congress Proposes Allowing Sandboxes for AI Within the Financial Services Industry (08/24) (how, under the Unleashing AI Innovation in Financial Services Act, financial firms can apply to financial regulators to test AI-driven projects without fear of undue regulation or retroactive enforcement)
- Quartz, Banks are using AI to stop the trillions of dollars funding terrorism and trafficking (08/24)
- Terence M. Grugan (LAW ’09), Bloomberg Law, Bank Regulators Look to Existing Tools to Police AI Advances (07/23)
Bankruptcy:
- Bloomberg Law, AI in Consumer Bankruptcy Creates Privacy Concerns, Panel Says (07/24)
Employment Law:
- National Law Review, Considerations for Artificial Intelligence and Employment Law (01/24) (examining the Risks of AI in employment law such as how machine learning will interact with Title VII and the ADA)
Corporate Governance:
- Governance Intelligence, Rise of the ‘robo-director’: How AI is shaping the future of corporate boardrooms (07/24)
- Harvard Business Review, AI Is Testing the Limits of Corporate Governance (05/23) (highlighting five lessons—and one warning—on the corporate governance of AI and other socially sensitive technologies made vivid by the turmoil at OpenAI)
Intellectual Property:
- Wired, Generative AI Has a ‘Shoplifting’ Problem. This Startup CEO Has a Plan to Fix It (08/24) (on negotiating with powerhouse media companies to pay for content)
- Venture Beat, Survey: 84% of tech execs back copyright law overhaul for AI era (08/24)
- Bloomberg Law, AI-Powered Medical Devices Bring Patent and Regulatory Pitfalls (08/24)
- Jillian M. Taylor (LAW ’16), The Temple 10-Q, AI and Copyright: A New Kind of Copyright Troll? The Rise of AI in Creative Works (03/23)
- Zach Lewis (LAW ’19), Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, The Dawn of a New Era: U.S. Copyright Office Registers Comic Book Featuring AI-Generated Images (03/23)
Consumer Protection and Liability:
- New Scientist, Can AI chatbots be reined in by a legal duty to tell the truth? (08/24)
- The Atlantic, We’re Entering an AI Price-Fixing Dystopia (08/24) (how “algorithmic collusion” appears to be spreading to more and more industries and existing laws may not be equipped to stop it)
- Mayer Brown, Utah Enacts AI-Focused Consumer Protection Bill (05/24)
- Bloomberg Law, AI Firms Face Broad Liability Under FTC Deepfake Proposal (02/24)
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB Issues Guidance on Credit Denials by Lenders Using Artificial Intelligence (09/23)
- Sheppard Mullin, AI Under the Antitrust Microscope: Competition Enforcers Focusing on Generative AI from All Angles (08/23) (examining the DOJ and FTC investigation into AI bundling and Algorithmic Pricing/Collusion)
Legal Education:
- Quartz, A major finance firm is requiring its 35,000 employees to take a generative AI bootcamp (08/24)
- Bloomberg Law, Law Clerk vs. AI? Courthouse Test Highlights Judicial Curiosity (07/24)
- Reuters, Law schools boost their AI offerings as industry booms (06/24) [See Temple Law’s LAW 1098: Artificial Intelligence Law]
- Law School Toolbox Podcast, Implications of AI for the Legal Profession (05/24)
- Harvard Law Today, The legal profession in 2024: AI (02/24)
Legal Tools:
- Above the Law, 3 In 4 In-House Legal Teams Want AI For Contract Review. Surprised? We’re Not. (08/24)
- Crunchbase, Eye On AI: Legal Tech Funding Getting AI Upgrade (06/24)
- Business Insider, AI could become a lawyer’s greatest help in the courtroom (06/24) (While “[g]enerative AI’s accuracy can make it a minefield, . . . the legal industry’s increasing complexity has many lawyers using it for help.”)
- New York Times, R.S. Deploys Artificial Intelligence to Catch Tax Evasion (09/23)
- Joe Tate and Nicole Gill (LAW ’15), CODISCOVR, AI Is Not Just eDiscovery’s Future — It’s Also Its Past – Thought Leadership (07/23)
Academic Conferences:
- National Conference on AI Law, Ethics, Safety & Compliance, September 25-26, 2024, DC Bar Association, Washington, DC
- Artificial Intelligence & Robotics National Institute, October 14-15, ABA Science & Technology Law Section, Santa Clara University School of Law
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law at Northwestern University, June 16-20, 2025, Pritzker School of Law
Books:
- Artificial Intelligence: Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies (ABA-published book on AI and the law, providing practical advice to attorneys on how to navigate complex, rapidly evolving issues)
- The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law (in which University of Surrey School of Law Professor Ryan Abbott argues that an antiquated legal framework is constraining inventive AI)