AI Counsel Blog Posts

By Yan Ross JD, Editor-in-Chief, Cyber Defense Magazine   NOTE: The author is writing in his individual capacity only, and does not intend this blog to constitute legal advice or a legal opinion. Some research on the topic employed artificial intelligence resources, but the work product is the author’s alone.   This manuscript is the […]

This Technology Magazine article highlights Microsoft’s advocacy of a zero-trust approach to AI governance, which treats super-intelligent frontier models with the same caution historically reserved for internal users. The article says that Microsoft’s move signals a “decisive pivot” in hyperscalers’ approach to balancing the potential of enterprise AI against its operational risks. This excerpt from […]

Harvard’s Kennedy School recently published a paper titled “A Pre-mortem on The First Major AI-Enabled Terrorism Event and The Choices That Could Enable It.” The paper addresses how a major AI-enabled cyber, bio or chemical terrorism event might happen and how the choices made across an AI model’s lifecycle might contribute to the event. The […]

This Jones Walker blog discusses some of the key insights from Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report and says that the most significant conclusion is the way that organizations’ own AI Agents are being deployed against them: The more consequential finding is that threat actors are “beginning to explore the potential to directly exploit agentic systems […]

This Debevoise blog analogizes the potential effect of integration of AI tools into high-end legal services to the invention of the printing press.  Prior to that time, producing books was a slow, laborious process. Once Gutenberg’s new tool came onto the scene, however, books could be produced much more quickly and cheaply, but each was […]