The Justice Department’s “crash course” in AI enforcement

In Law360, Joel Cohen, partner at White & Case White Collar, comments on the U.S. Department of Justice's focus on AI, both as a tool to detect and investigate potential fraud and in pursuing unsubstantiated claims about AI capabilities, also known as “AI-washing.”

Cohen said some of the investigators had a misunderstanding of how people interact with AI technology and train it to improve it.[AI] “It's not like the HAL computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which can do literally anything,” he said. “We've done a lot of educational work to make it clear to the Justice Department and others that these are not necessarily misrepresentations. They just, with all due respect, don't understand the nature and magnitude of the product.”

However, Cohen said the Justice Department is learning quickly from the AI ​​industry as it looks to future efforts to enforce AI laws. “I imagine there will be a number of decisions between now and the end of the year on whether to file cases, so we'll see to some degree how responsive they are.”

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