AI & Law: “Bad AI” Stokes Lawyering Goldmine

Lance Eliot
6 min readMay 8, 2021
AI For Bad is emerging and lawyers will be needed as it arises.

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

  • There is much discussion these days about AI for Good
  • This has startled people into realizing that there is also the potential of AI for Bad
  • Regulators are considering passing new laws to stem the possibility of Bad AI
  • The EU supposedly is considering a severe penalty for firms that promulgate Bad AI
  • Attorneys versed in AI and the law are going to find themselves facing a goldmine of work

Introduction

With the rush toward devising AI systems, there was an initial gleeful gushing about how great AI will be and the moniker of AI for Good magically came into prominence.

As will be pointed out in a moment, all good things must come to end, as they say, and also the reality is beginning to settle in about whether AI is intrinsically and axiomatically going to be solely for the purposes of good and worthy endeavors. That seems like…

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Lance Eliot

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a renowned global expert on AI, successful startup founder, global CIO/CTO, , was a top exec at a major Venture Capital (VC) firm.