Thinking like a lawyer about artificial intelligence leads to a better understanding of how to effectively and appropriately use AI, assess the risks, and identify policies to address the risks that technology creates. This thought-provoking guide helps lawyers, policymakers, executives, and others understand not just the technology of artificial intelligence, but the significance of AI for everyone.
Throughout the book, the author portrays AI as a series of predictive tools defined by functionality. Because AI performs many tasks in different fields, lawyers can consider which AI functions can be grouped by legal impact, generating operational problems, biased decisions, and intellectual property issues. This book suggests how several of these functional categories can be examined and regulated.
Written by industry leader, Ted Claypoole, this book begins with "What is artificial intelligence?" and examines why lawyers need to think differently about AI. He addresses different categories of AI such as generative, decision-making, personal identification, military, physician action, and the interesting question of whether AI should receive legal rights. The guide includes developing policy for novel AI problems and ends with a detailed discussion on lawyers using AI and ensuring compliance with professional rules of conduct.
Claypoole, Theodore F.: - As a Partner of Womble Bond Dickinson's Intellectual Property Practice Group, Ted leads the firm's IP Transaction Team. Ted manages information security risk and cross-border data transfer issues, including those involving the European Union and the Data Protection Safe Harbor. He helps businesses monetize their data and build data-centric business models, including building data protections for Internet connected devices of all types. He also negotiates and prepares business process outsourcing, distribution, branding, software development, hosted application and electronic commerce agreements for all types of companies.
Ted served as Chair of the American Bar Association's Cyberspace Law Committee in the Business Law Section, and is on Section leadership teams.
He edited and co-wrote The Law of AI and Smart Machines for the ABA Business Law Section and has co-authored the books Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights and Protecting Your Family and Protecting Your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online? with Theresa Payton. He has written Technology, Data and Law, also available on Amazon.
His practice includes SaaS contracts, mobile platforms, AI, blockchain/NFT work, and quantum security. He solves legal problems in payment systems and financial data processing. Advising clients on complex intellectual property development and licensing programs, he builds strategic technology and marketing alliances, including the Internet of Things.
His work for current firm clients includes major financial institutions, colleges and universities, manufacturers and distributors, hardware and microchip manufacturers, software companies, hospitals and health systems, governments and government contractors. Ted prepares and negotiates deals on transaction services, supply chain development, marketing and distribution ventures, and network infrastructure. His experience as primary technology counsel for Bank of America provides clients with a deep understanding of issues facing financial services.
