WG13 Inaugural Meeting Agenda

Time  Session  Panelists
  Wednesday, January 15, 2025 (*=moderator)
5:30 — 7:30 p.m. Welcome Reception  
  Thursday, January 16, 2025  
7:30 — 8:30 a.m. Breakfast & sign-in  
8:30 — 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Announcements  
 
  • What does a TSC Working Group do and how?
  • What else is TSC currently doing in the AI space?
 Grossman, Ray, Withers*
9:00 — 10:00 a.m. [Session 01] What Do We Mean by "AI"  
 
  • Technology primer on AI technologies
  • What is included and excluded when we say "AI"
 McVoy, Ray*, Strange, Vidmar
10:00 — 10:15 a.m. Morning Break  
10:15 — 11:15 a.m. [Session 02] Regulation of AI  
 
  • What new laws and regulations have been proposed or implemented to address AI technologies
  • What existing laws and regulations might have a major impact on AI use?
 Arnold, McMurrough, Pelletier*, Ray, Sterling
11:15  — 12:15 p.m. [Session 03] Real-Life AI Use Cases: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly  
 
  • For what legal and business functions are utilizing AI effectively?
  • Where has AI failed to deliver on its promise, and why?
  • Are there any functions for which AI is inappropriate?
 Bien, Dahlin, Emory*, Ma
12:15 — 1:15 p.m. Lunch (provided)  
1:15 — 2:15 p.m. [Session 04] Measurement, Defensibility, and Compliance: Vetting, Validation, and Monitoring of AI Tools and Uses  
 
  • Laws, regulations, and business cases for AI are all based on assessments of its fitness for purpose (validity and reliability). But can we agree on how to make those assessments?
  • AI business cases are fine-tuned to deliver optimal decisions and outcomes, but AI-regulating laws are focused on compliance with legal standards. As various jurisdictions begin requiring AI impact assessments, bias audits, and other AI validations, can we agree on the best way forward?
 Cormack, Grossman, Hedin*
2:15 — 3:15 p.m. [Session 05] AI Governance  
 
  • The introduction of AI into an enterprise, and GenAI in particular, raises many questions about information collection, retention, stewardship, access, and disposal that are the bedrock of Information Governance policies and procedures. How does Information Governance need to be expanded to incorporate AI?
 Kearney, Moncure*, Olsen, Zeller
3:15 — 3:30 p.m. Afternoon Break  
3:30 — 4:30 p.m. [Session 06] IP Part 1: Training of AI on Potentially Copyrighted Information  
 
  • GenAI requires massive amounts of data for training, and the hightest quality data. Books, edited articles, published works of art, and music - are generally protected by copyright. Is ingestion of such data a violation of copyright, "fair use," or something else entirely? Should we compensate creators for access to their work, and if so, how might we do that?
 Benon, Selwyn, Vo*
4:30 — 5:30 p.m. [Session 07] IP Part 2: Patenting and Copyrighting of AI-Genereated Content  
 
  • Currently, the Copyright Office will decline to protect any work created by AI. The Patent Office requires "reasonable disclosure" of the role of AI in developing the invention. Is either approach appropriate, or do we need entirely new concepts of "invention" and "creation" that account for the future pervasiveness of AI in human creations?
 Abbott, Kelly*, Kenton, Powers, Vidal
5:30 — 7:30 p.m. Reception (guests invited)  
  Friday, January 17, 2025  
7:30 — 8:30 a.m. Breakfast & sign-in  
8:30 — 9:45 a.m. [Session 08] AI and the Courts (Including Evidentiary Issues) - Judges Panel
 

 

  • Can AI help relieve overburdened courts?
  • Can AI assist self-represented litigants?
  • Should judges be using GenAI and if so, for what tasks?
  • How can judges and juries spot AI-generated evidence?
 Goddard, Grossman*, Presser, Rodriguez, Thumma
9:45 — 10:45 a.m. [Session 09] What the Future of AI Holds: Law and Technology  
 
  • What is next on the horizon for AI?
  • Where can advances in AI improve the legal system?
  • What are the potential legal dangers that these advances might present?
 Marchant, Jorgensen*, Shepard, Vidmar
10:45 — 11:00 a.m. Morning Break  
11:00 — 12:00 p.m. [Session 10] Where Does Working Group 13 Go From Here  
 
  • Can we identify tipping point legal issues raised by AI that would benefit from further analysis and guidance for courts and lawmakers?
  • Are there issues for which we might reach broad agreement on principles or guidelines for resolution?
  • Given limited volunteer resources and much landscape to cover, where can The Sedona Conference get the biggest bang for its buck?
 Grossman, Ko*, Moncure, Ray, Withers
12:00 — 12:30 p.m. Lunch (grab-and-go - take to Breakout Room)  
12:30 — 1:30 p.m. Breakout 1  
 
  • Topic(s) to be determined.
  
1:30 — 1:45 p.m. Afternoon Break  
1:45 — 2:45 p.m. Breakout 2  
 
  • Topic(s) to be determined.
  
2:45 — 3:00 p.m. Closing Remarks and Adjournment