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MoFo Tech brings together legal insights and in-depth analyses on trends and complex issues shaping the global technology industry, covering fields such as blockchain and distributed ledger, cloud and SaaS technologies, driverless cars, drones, FinTech, computer hardware and software, the IoT, semiconductors, and telecommunications.

January 17, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - UK Targets Innovation Not Regulation for AI Sector
By: Alistair Maughan
During 2023, the UK will continue to position itself as a leader in the AI sector — by emphasizing support for the AI industry rather than pushing forward a legislative agenda. In 2022, the UK government published an AI Regulation Policy Paper and AI
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January 03, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - IP Protection for AI-Assisted Technology
By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron
While the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made clear this year that only humans can be inventors and that an AI program itself cannot obtain a patent (see our prior coverage of Thaler v. Vidal ), this in no way means that
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December 29, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - Budgeting for the Future of AI
By: Erin M. Bosman and Matt Robinson
In 2020, Congress passed the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (NAIIA) to strengthen Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances and innovations across multiple sectors by providing investments to National AI Research Institutes under the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO). The NAIIA requires the NAIIO to
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December 28, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - Environmental Law
By: William F. Tarantino and Cedar Hobbs
The advent of AI is drastically changing the environmental law landscape. Until recently, it was nearly impossible to track the environmental impacts of corporate activities or products. The sheer immensity and complexity of the numbers shrouded our understanding of environmental inputs and outputs. But
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December 23, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - Public Attention to AI Will Continue to Rise
By: Tessa J. Schwartz and Heather M. Whitney
While the use of AI tools is not new, public awareness of, and debate around, these tools will continue to increase as these tools become more widely available. Talk of AI and in particular generative AI is now ubiquitous in mainstream news media and
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December 22, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - AI Diagnostic Tools and Cybersecurity Risk
By: Erin M. Bosman, Stacy Cline Amin and Spencer N. Migotsky
Cybersecurity is a key risk factor for emerging applications of artificial intelligence to medical devices. Products failing to address security risks may leave themselves vulnerable to cyberattacks. Bad actors target hospitals and healthcare systems, in particular through ransomware, credential harvesting, or device theft. According
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December 21, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - Increased Government Scrutiny of AI
By: Tessa J. Schwartz and Heather M. Whitney
Both domestically and internationally, in 2023 we expect to see continued government scrutiny and regulation of AI tools and their use. AI Bill of Rights. In October 2022, the White House released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: Making Automated Systems Work
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December 20, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - AI Bots
By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron
AI bots will continue to surprise and challenge us in the year ahead, as issues as divergent as the importance of algorithmic transparency in recruiting to student cheating (through use of AI bots to generate reports). Chatbots have been used for some time now
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December 19, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - Generative AI in the Spotlight
By: Tessa J. Schwartz and Heather M. Whitney
Technology companies, researchers, content creators, and lawmakers will continue to grapple with the thorny copyright issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic outputs. In 2023, we expect to see continued litigation and policy discussions regarding the following topics. Authorship of AI algorithm generated
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December 16, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - FDA Regulatory
By: Stacy Cline Amin, Erin M. Bosman and Neusha Etemad
In September 2022, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released its Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Software Guidance and the final report on the Software Pre-Certification Pilot Program. The new FDA policies move away from prized flexibilities in the previous guidelines governing software products.
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