New York City Bar Association President Muhammad U. Faridi today announced the launch of a Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies.
The Task Force will include nine subcommittees focusing on different areas of artificial intelligence, including access to justice, commerce and finance, national security, healthcare, legal ethics, liabilities and remedies, and the international regulation of artificial intelligence.
“As a bar association, we of course need to consider the practical issues of how to – and how not to – incorporate AI into the provision of legal services and the administration of justice,” said Faridi. “But with law being where ethics and morality interact with the regulation of human conduct, and with the potent impact AI is bringing across society with both great promise and great peril, it is incumbent on organizations like ours to facilitate discussion about these issues among thought leaders, lawyers, scientists, technologists, academics, business leaders, ethicists, citizens and policymakers.”
Faridi has appointed three co-chairs of the Task Force: Lorraine McGowen, a Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Edward So, a Partner at White & Case; and Jerome Walker, a Partner at Jerome Walker PLLC.
A wide range of professionals have been appointed to the nine subcommittees, including university professors, computer scientists, industry representatives, business and nonprofit leaders, government officials and regulators, and lawyers and judges. Faridi expects that they will tackle topics such as “how to regulate AI that generates content that amplifies existing biases; or that may lead to the further isolation of our children; or that impedes human freedom, choice and autonomy; or that creates deepfake content that could sow discord and weaken public confidence in our institutions; or whether AI enhances fundamental aspects of our shared humanity, such as creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving, or leads to their destruction; or whether AI may pose an existential threat to our world.”
The newly-formed subcommittees and current rosters are:
Subcommittee on Generative Artificial Intelligence and
the Law
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes large
language models; multi-modal models; foundation models; tools such
as ChatGPT, Claude, CoCounsel, Gemini, Mistral and Harvey;
intellectual property and copyright issues; and the reliability of
source material and training material to combat bias and assure
accuracy and responsible artificial intelligence.
Co-Chairs:
Wendy Butler Curtis, Chief Innovation Officer,
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Robert Mahari, Harvard Law School and MIT Media
Lab
Members:
Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Professor, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Peter Henderson, Professor, Princeton
University
Gabriele Mazzini, former Chief Architect, EU AI
Act, European Commission
John Paul Oleksiuk, Partner, Cooley
Sunoo Park, Professor, New York University
Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence in Commerce and
Finance
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes the use of
artificial intelligence in banking; insurance; securities;
commodities; payments; trade; and related global issues for
artificial intelligence in commerce and finance.
Co-Chairs:
Azish Filabi, Executive Director, American College
Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics in Financial Services
Stuart Levi, Partner, Skadden Arps
Members:
Corey Goldstein, Associate, Paul, Weiss
Adam Marchuck, Managing Director and General
Counsel, Citi
Muyiwa Odeniyide, Director & Associate General
Counsel, Nasdaq Regulation
Jordan Miner Romanoff, Senior Director &
Senior Managing Counsel, Co-Head Intellectual Property Legal, Head
of Marketing and Communications Legal, BNY Mellon
Subcommittee on the International Regulation of
Artificial Intelligence
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes United
Nations Resolution(s) on Artificial Intelligence; the Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development guidance on artificial
intelligence; US Executive Orders and laws on Artificial
Intelligence; the use of artificial intelligence in other
countries; and the use and support of artificial intelligence by
international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund and
the World Bank.
Co-Chairs:
Austin Brown, Assistant Attorney General, New York
State Attorney General, Foreign & Comparative Law Committee
Co-Chair
Nichole Sterling, Partner, BakerHostetler
Members:
Margaret E. McGuinness, St. John’s
University School of Law, Council on International Affairs
Chair
Minesh Tanna, Partner, Simmons & Simmons
Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence in
Healthcare
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes medical
health; mental health; the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act; hospitals and other health service
organizations; Medicaid and Medicare; and social determinants of
health.
Co-Chairs:
Debra Cohn, Lecturer, Columbia Law School, Health
Law Committee Chair
Anne Zimmerman, Lecturer, Columbia University,
Bioethical Issues Committee Chair
Members:
Dan Fisher, Legal Director, Digital and Data,
Merck
Daniel Lennard, Assistant General Counsel, Mount
Sinai Health System
Christine Moundas, Partner, Ropes
& Gray
Jason Raylesberg, Senior Associate, Arnold &
Porter
Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence and Access to
Justice
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes the
challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence for
unrepresented parties and nonprofit and legal services
organizations that assist or represent unrepresented parties; the
cost of artificial intelligence tools and how those costs might
affect access to justice; and the potential of artificial
intelligence to deepen existing disparities in access to
justice.
Co-Chairs:
Abbe Gluck, Professor, Yale Law School and Medical
School
McGregor Smyth, Executive Director, New York
Lawyers for the Public Interest
Members:
Raymond Brescia, Professor, Albany Law
School
Rodrigo Camarena, Director, Justicia Lab
Katherine Forrest, Partner, Paul, Weiss, and
former U.S. District Court Judge, Southern District of New
York
Rich Leimsider, Independent Nonprofit Consultant
and Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Fund for the City of New York
Subcommittee on Liabilities and Remedies Related to the
Use of Artificial Intelligence
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes liabilities
to and remedies against creators, designers and developers of
artificial intelligence tools and systems; liabilities to and
remedies against sellers of artificial intelligence tools and
systems; liabilities to and remedies against users of artificial
intelligence tools and systems; and liabilities to and remedies
against third-party agents of artificial intelligence tools and
systems.
Chairs:
David Lisson, Partner, Davis Polk
Clinton W. Morrison, Counsel, Patterson Belknap
Webb & Tyler LLP
Members:
Matthew J. Bacal, Partner, Davis Polk
Shayne O’Reilly, Director & Associate
General Counsel, Head of Strategic Transactions, Licensing and Open
Source, Meta
Subcommittee on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in
the Judiciary
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes state and
local courts; federal courts; litigants; court administration;
specialized technology courts such as artificial intelligence
courts and robo judges; and alternative dispute resolution.
Co-Chairs:
Harut Minasian, Associate, Paul, Weiss and former
Judicial Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
and New York State Supreme Court, Westchester County, Commercial
Division
David Zaslowsky, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Members:
Abena Darkeh, Judge, Criminal Court of the City of
New York
Kevin Fodouop, Judicial Law Clerk, California
Supreme Court
Paul Grimm, Duke Law Professor and former U.S.
District Court Judge, District Court for the District of
Maryland
Maura Grossman, Research Professor, School of
Computer Science, University of Waterloo and Adjunct Professor at
Osgoode Hall Law School
Joseph Lamendola, New York State Supreme Court,
Presiding Judge, Commercial Division, Onondaga County
Xavier Rodriguez, U.S. District Judge, U.S.
District Court for the Western District of Texas
Susan E. Salazar, Of Counsel, Raff & Becker,
LLP, Clinic Professor CUNY School of Law, and Alternative Dispute
Resolution Committee Chair
John Werner, Former Chief Clerk and Executive
Officer of the Supreme Court, Civil Term, New York County
Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence and National
Security
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes the use of
artificial intelligence to combat corruption; cybercrime, including
relevant cybersecurity and virtual currency considerations; foreign
and domestic terrorist financing; fraud; transnational criminal
organization activity; drug trafficking organization activity;
human trafficking and human smuggling; and proliferation
financing.
Co-Chairs:
Sabeena Ahmed Liconte, Head of
Legal & Chief Compliance Officer, ICBC Standard Securities Inc.
and Foreign & Comparative Law Committee Co-Chair
Clark Abrams, Chief, Money Laundering and
Financial Investigations Unit, Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the
City of New York
Members:
Evan T. Abrams, Associate, Steptoe
Rim Belaoud, Manager, Forensic Technology,
Forensic Risk Alliance
Gary M Shiffman, Visiting Professor, Wilbur O. and
Ann Powers College of Business at Clemson University
Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence and Legal
Ethics
The initial focus of the Subcommittee includes analyzing
and reporting on the Rules of Professional Conduct; bar association
ethics opinions; case law; and the laws and regulations governing
the unauthorized practice of law.
Co-Chairs:
David Keyko, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP and Professional Ethics Committee Chair
Tyler Maulsby, President, Immediate Past Chair,
Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and Partner,
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
Members:
Matthew K. Corbin, Managing Director, Aon
Lucian T. Pera, Partner, Adams
& Reese LLP
Alison Roffi, Deputy General Counsel, Orrick,
Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Roy Simon, former Professor and Director,
Hofstra’s Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, Hofstra
University School of Law
Kaylin L. Whittingham, Managing Attorney,
Whittingham Law
The Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies will subsume the work of the City Bar’s Task Force on Digital Technologies, which launched in June 2022, as the successor to the City Bar Working Group on Cryptocurrencies which was formed in October 2021.
View all the Task Force subcommittees and rosters here: https://bit.ly/4gjaPbH
About the Association
The mission of the New York City Bar Association,
which was founded in 1870 and has 23,000 members, is to equip and
mobilize a diverse legal profession to practice with excellence,
promote reform of the law, and uphold the rule of law and access to
justice in support of a fair society and the public interest in our
community, our nation, and throughout the world. www.nycbar.org