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Yesterday the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order (EO), “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” that directs the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and other agencies to take action to preempt State AI laws.

States are playing a critical role in the development of AI policy in the United States, as serious legislative efforts at the federal level remain stalled. The Trump Administration and Republican Congress have signaled they plan to take a business-friendly, light-touch approach to AI regulation that prioritizes American innovation and emphasizes competition with China, and there is little prospect of Congress moving a substantive AI bill in the current political climate. Instead, states are mov

In an article for Law360, Partner Will Weaver, Associates Isabel Farhi and Ben Hand, and Policy Assistant John Menton examine the increasing intersection between litigation and regulatory risks that are reshaping the legal landscape in the US, a trend anticipated to intensify under the current Trump administration.

Law360 has named Partners Emily Loeb and Caroline Cease and Associate Ben Hand’s article on AI regulation among the top guest articles of 2023. The article analyzes the patchwork of state regulation concerning AI that has emerged across the US.

President Biden has signed a long-awaited executive order that builds upon the Biden Administration’s previously released, non-binding Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, and seeks to catalyze both agency action and congressional legislation on artificial intelligence in the coming months.  The Federal AI Executive Order covers a myriad of concerns that have been raised relating to AI – from cybersecurity to anti-discrimination to competition.

On October 30, 2023, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (the “Federal AI Executive Order”), a long-awaited executive order that builds upon the Biden Administration’s previously released, non-binding Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (“AI Bill of Rights”), and seeks to catalyze both agency action and congressional legislation on artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the coming months. The Federal AI Executive Order is a lengthy docume

The US Supreme Court today delivered a “complete victory” to our clients and affirmed the 2022 decision of the North Carolina Supreme Court in Moore v. Harper, a consolidation of three cases stemming from North Carolina’s redistricting process.

With the public release of Open AI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 and Google’s Bard in March 2023, governments across the world have a renewed focus on regulating the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”). Within the United States, a patchwork of state regulation concerning AI has emerged—a trend that is likely to continue in 2023 given the reality that there is unlikely to be meaningful federal AI legislation in the 118th Congress.

Today, Jenner & Block filed a Supreme Court brief in Moore v. Harper, continuing its advocacy for free and fair election maps on behalf of its client, the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters.

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