Martin Kratz writes
Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law
Giuseppina D’Agostino, Aviv Gaon and Carole Piovesan
2021 Thompson Reuters
ISBN 978-0-7798-9871-8
In an age where so many clients that I assisted were implementing machine learning systems and other artificial intelligence (AI) systems this book, Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law, is a welcome resource.
The book is a collection of essays that explore different facets of artificial intelligence and thereby, together, build up a more robust understanding for the reader on many of the practical and policy challenges that these systems provide.
The title promises a toolkit and delivers in several ways. As one might expect in these early days of AI implementation, most chapters address policy issues in a wide range of areas. That will be useful to those seeking policy debate. Most authors are with various institutes or universities and provide useful scholarly perspectives on these policy issues. Many of the chapters use European examples but a number also include US and other sources (including some Canadian) for policy consideration or regulation.
Practicing lawyers may benefit from the excellent first chapter identifying risks and shortcomings of AI and the simplification of AI, the chapter on intellectual property provides a good overview of patentability issues for software enabled inventions and some issues about copyright. Several chapters also address the duty of technological competence which is increasingly part of the Model Code of many law societies. Litigators may benefit from Chapter 7 and 8’s treatment of different theories of liability when AI does harm.
The three editors, Giuseppina (Pina) D’Agostino, Aviv Gaon and Carole Piovesan, set the stage by noting that application of AI systems generate many novel legal and policy issues and require us to rethink many traditional legal and moral concepts.
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