Litigators in some of Pennsylvania’s largest firms are carefully monitoring the ongoing artificial intelligence boom, recognizing that the widening deployment of the cutting-edge technology has the potential to usher in a fresh wave of matters, ranging from antitrust violations to employment concerns.

And regulators are also scrutinizing some of the early applications of AI in the public sphere, with the U.S. Department of Justice looking into a tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency to guide which families it investigates.