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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.

  • AI Trends for 2023 - Budgeting for the Future of AI
    - Artificial Intelligence

    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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  • AI Trends for 2023 - Environmental Law
    - Artificial Intelligence

    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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  • AI Trends for 2023 - AI Diagnostic Tools and Cybersecurity Risk
    - Artificial Intelligence

    AI Trends for 2023 - AI Diagnostic Tools and Cybersecurity Risk

    By: Erin M. Bosman 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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  • AI Trends for 2023 - AI Bots
    - Artificial Intelligence

    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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  • AI Trends for 2023 - Generative AI in the Spotlight
    - Artificial Intelligence

    AI Trends for 2023 - Generative AI in the Spotlight

    By: Tessa Schwartz

    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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  • AI Trends for 2023 - FDA Regulatory
    - Artificial Intelligence

    AI Trends for 2023 - FDA Regulatory

    By: Erin M. Bosman

    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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  • AI Trends for 2023 - AI in Automated Manufacturing
    - Artificial Intelligence

    AI Trends for 2023 - AI in Automated Manufacturing

    By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron

    AI as applied to manufacturing will continue to trend upward, along with associated product liability concerns. Manufacturers will continue to seek out and implement solutions that integrate tools that use AI (including machine learning) to automate the manufacturing floor. Vendors of these tools may
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