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Biden administration releases wide-ranging executive order on AI

By Adrian Snead, Maxwell Herath and Porter Wright on
Woman using mobile phone to log in and chat with Artificial Intelligence chatbot. Robot application and global connection, AI, Artificial intelligence, innovation, and technologyOn Oct. 30, 2023, the Biden administration issued an executive order focused on the growing field of artificial intelligence. The administration is advancing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to the safe and responsible development and use of AI and setting a marker for the world. The EO is practical and aspirational with varying degrees of … Continue Reading

Recent Google sanctions should prompt review of data preservation practices

By Porter Wright on
Close-up hands typing on keyboard laptop computer with chat box iconsA federal court in California ruled in favor of sanctions against Google last week for failing to preserve records. Google’s document retention policy required individual employees to identify internal chat conversations responsive to a litigation hold. The court found this policy to be in violation of Google’s duty to preserve electronically-stored information under the Federal … Continue Reading

Avoiding smart contract conflicts despite ambiguity

By Porter Wright on
A version of this article was originally published by Law360 on Oct. 21, 2020. Depending on whom you ask, the promise of smart contracts ranges from the mundane to the fantastic—from helping to “facilitate, verify, execute and enforce the terms of a commercial agreement”[i] to ushering in the end of contract law by providing a … Continue Reading
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