Entertainment Law, Media Law and Telecoms Law

Gorman’s testimony identified two intersecting risks: (1) the rapidly expanding cybersecurity risks created by AI, and (2) the loss of U.S. leadership in AI amid growing competition from China. She emphasized that generative AI has fundamentally changed the threat landscape, creating new vulnerabilities across communications networks while also becoming a central arena for geopolitical and economic competition.

Artificial intelligence has become a routine feature of proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Both complainants and respondents now use AI to draft pleadings, identify legal arguments, generate or support evidence, build websites and business plans, and produce automated domain name valuations. Used carefully, these tools can make the UDRP more accessible and more efficient. Used carelessly, they introduce real risks around accuracy, evidential reliability, confidentiality and accountability.

The opportunity in North American fiber is hiding in plain sight. More than 400 independent operators have built the networks that large carriers would like to own, but as capital gets more expensive and subscriber growth slows, the economics that financed those builds have turned against the operators holding them.