Artificial Intelligence

“No one’s talking really about speculation, although if you create the market, that will happen, right? You create the market, inevitably people will use it to bet on these prices,” said Professor Frank Partnoy.

“The 4Ds model needs a fifth ‘D’—it’s the key to keeping human judgment at the center of AI-powered legal practice,” writes Wayne Stacy, executive director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

“The idea is to protect the formation of first-year law students by requiring them to do the reading, analysis and argumentation that is constitutive of legal work,” said Professor Chris Hoofnagle. “Once that happens, Berkeley offers many courses explicitly about A.I. lawyering.”

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.”