Artificial Intelligence

Last year, Attorney General Rob Bonta — as well as Kathy Jennings, the attorney general of Delaware — signed off on OpenAI’s corporate restructuring, albeit with a list of conditions. As a result, it’s dubious whether Musk has the legal right — known as “standing” — to bring a case, some legal experts said. If he ends up winning the lawsuit, the case will likely be appealed on that basis, said Vince Joralemon, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law and Technology.

“The coming years will test which model of nonprofit control proves more sustainable in the AI economy: the socially oriented for-profit or the income-generating for-profit model,” write Professor Ofer Eldar and Mark Ørberg, assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School. That choice may shape how the next generation of AI companies balance safety, profit, and national power.

Vincent Joralemon, an AI law expert at UC Berkeley Law, said attorneys who fail to adopt such tools may eventually face scrutiny as well. “At some point, the general acceptance in the field will be that it is better to use these tools than not to use them,” Joralemon said.

Citing an “unprecedented moment” for democracy and the rule of law, Chemerinsky will add two years to his tenure to encourage the school to “think big,” deepen its public mission, and strengthen its long-term financial footing.

“Nobody was talking about it,” said Berkeley Law J.S.D. candidate Mahwish Moazzam. “But when we look into these (apps), these tools are not merely making mistakes, they are reshaping how people are represented in digital spaces. And when that reshaping repeatedly (erases) visible religious markers of identity, the issue is no longer technical. … It is discrimination, it is exclusion and it is a question of human dignity.”

Berkeley Law and the Indigenous Journalists Association launch a national effort to close the legal knowledge gap in reporting.

“(AI is) very related to how we win conflicts,” said Professor Chris Hoofnagle. “If these (military) decisions are not made correctly, we could kill innocent people with devices and in ways where the human is disconnected, so it’s a profound ethical issue confronting our generation.”

Professor Andrea Roth weighs in on Federal Rule of Evidence 707.

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law is leading the way on the AI front. One year after launching the world’s first LL.M. Certificate in AI Law and Regulation, the school has expanded its curriculum with new courses in biotechnology, business and corporate strategy.

“Today’s lawyers need to integrate technology into their practice, not just understand it in theory,” said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, professor and faculty co-director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. “Learning to think like a lawyer in the age of AI means using machine learning, computer vision and other digital tools ethically and effectively to investigate, analyze and advocate.”