Danny Tobey

Attorney, medical doctor, and former software entrepreneur at

A partner of DLA Piper, he has consulted with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 on legal issues in creating and adopting AI. A graduate of Harvard College, Yale Law School, and UT Southwestern Medical School, his work on AI and the law appears in the National Law Journal and the 2018 Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the Continuously Learning Systems task force with leading industry representatives.

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Technology, Privacy, and eCommerce

AI for GCs: What You Need to Know as Your Company Adapts

So, what is a good in-house counsel to do? Consider it the wave of the future and jump in? Wait for industry norms and regulatory standards to evolve? Adopt off-the-shelf solutions or seek bespoke services? Each approach has its own risk profile, but those judgments should be informed by a working understanding of what AI is and how it is both similar to and different from past technologies.