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Technology Section Chairs : JasonPill – PhelpsDunbar & KurtSanger – BuchananIngersoll & Rooney
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Few professions have gathered and indexed their collective wisdom as well as the legal field . Attorneys can access centuries worth of guidance in judicial decisions , law review notes , and other publications . This recorded wisdom not only explains the past but is useful to forecasting future legal decision-making .
Many important legal issues confronting lawyers today have limited history . As technology rapidly advances and makes its way into more aspects of daily life , attorneys will frequently find themselves in relatively uncharted territory . Without centuries worth of precedent to call upon , each new judicial decision and major event shedding light on these under-explored spaces has outsized precedential value .
The following are a few developments illuminating law ’ s application to technical fields , hopefully beginning to establish greater legal certainty to guide attorneys and businesses operating in this expanding area of law .
Artificial Intelligence : Acting as an Agent of Its Employers
Most cases addressing Artificial Intelligence ’ s use have focused on copyright infringement and related matters . Fewer cases have addressed vicarious liability for actions taken by AI tools , but a precedent may be developing . Companies have been held to the agreements made by these tools , such as those made by chatbots communicating with customers . While product liability theories may be pursued against software developers , for now , it appears as if AI systems will be treated as agents or employees acting in the scope of employment for tort and contract purposes .
The CrowdStrike Outage : Overcoming Software Liability Limits
Liability for faulty software is almost always limited or waived as
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