AI Law and Business is a comprehensive legal treatise that explores how U.S. and international laws intersect with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. Covering topics from intellectual property and employment law to ethics, data privacy, and risk mitigation, it offers essential guidance for understanding and governing AI in today’s evolving legal and business landscape.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been in the public eye since November 2022 when OpenAI made ChatGPT available. Since then, AI has advanced from party tricks to tools capable of acing professional exams and assisting with sophisticated knowledge work. The breakneck pace of technological progress, the immensity of possible economic gains, the plausibility of an intelligence explosion all point to the same imperative: robust, anticipatory governance must be built in parallel with every new innovation and use of AI. The law will not stop progress, but it can help steer it. AI Law and Business is a treatise on AI and the law. covering U.S. state and federal laws on AI as well as international laws and industry standards. It includes chapters on intellectual property, employment law, data privacy, ethics, contracts, torts and risk mitigation.
Jason D. Krieser is the co-head of the McDermott Will & Schulte's Technology Transactions & Outsourcing Practice, co-founder of the firm’s AI Cross-Practice Group and the office managing partner for the Dallas office. Jason advises clients on all aspects of technology transactions, outsourcing matters, and other complex commercial contracts, including AI, generative AI, digital health, digital infrastructure, and robotic process automation. Jason also serves on the firm’s Management Committee.
Shawn Helms
Shawn C. Helms is co-head of McDermott Will & Schulte's Technology Transactions & Outsourcing Practice and co-founder of the firm’s AI Cross-Practice Group. Shawn has broad experience in the areas of information technology, AI, outsourcing, blockchain, crypto, digital health and telecommunications. Shawn is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He was previously in-house counsel at T-Mobile/Sprint and the Chief Information Officer of Williams & Connolly.
Christopher Cyrus
Christopher C. Cyrus served as the Director of AI Innovation at McDermott Will & Schulte—a leading global law firm named Most Innovative in North America by the Financial Times. Before GPT-4, he practiced law as a complex commercial litigator, at Baker Botts LLP and Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C., after serving as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Marina Garcia Marmolejo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He attended both college and law school at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was an Articles Editor on the Texas Law Review.