Learn About The American Bar Association’s New Task Force on Law and AI

Dear Members: I am rekindling this Meetup group, including working with new co-organizers, who I hope will start running regular programs. One of the most important recent developments has been the American Bar Association’s new Association-wide task force on artificial intelligence. The task force is one of the signature initiatives of ABA President Mary Smith. Our meetup will focus on what Mary Smith seeks to accomplish with the task force and the task force’s goals and expected outputs.
This Meetup is offered as a member benefit to Section members, although does not include CLE credits.

Our topic: the new ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/leadership/office_of_the_president/artificial-intelligence/. We will hear from the Chair and one of the Vice Chairs of this new task force. We will cover Mary Smith’s purpose in creating the Task Force, its subgroups, its goals, who is on the Task Force, and expected outputs. Because AI is so important to the legal profession and the world, we will explore what the Task Force can accomplish beyond Mary Smith’s presidency.

Our speakers:
Lucy L. Thomson, CIPP/US, CISSP, is the founding principal of Livingston PLLC in Washington, D.C. where she focuses her practice on cybersecurity, global data privacy, and compliance and risk management. A career attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, she managed and conducted complex litigation in the Criminal and Civil Rights Divisions. She subsequently worked as a senior principal engineer and privacy advocate at CSC, a global technology company. Appointed the Consumer Privacy Ombudsman (CPO) in 35 federal bankruptcy cases, she currently serves as the CPO in one of the largest cryptocurrency bankruptcies, Celsius Network (S.D. N.Y.).
Ms. Thomson is the chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Law. A past chair of the ABA Science & Technology Law Section (SciTech), she is a founding member of the Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and a member of the House of Delegates (since 2004). She is a co-author of ABA policy resolution 604 (2023) on artificial intelligence (AI) calling for human oversight and control, accountability, and transparency, and the author of books/chapters on the security and privacy challenges of emerging technologies and critical infrastructure, including AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), bioinformatics, and elections. She received a Master’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and holds a J.D. degree from Georgetown.
Laura Possessky is an Assistant General Counsel and Vice President, Business Affairs at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), working in the General Counsel’s Office. In this role she is responsible for structuring, drafting and negotiating grant agreements and advises CPB departments on legal matters relating to grants management. Previously, she worked in CPB's Office of Business Affairs.
Ms. Possessky joined CPB in 2016 from private law practice where she counseled digital media and production companies, nonprofits and educational institutions on entertainment, intellectual property, corporate and nonprofit law matters. She previously worked in the business affairs division of the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Contracting and with Citibank in Paris, France. A recognized bar leader, Ms. Possessky is a recipient of the Frederick B. Abramson Award for innovative and dedicated service to the District of Columbia Bar. She was named a “Woman of Vision” by Women In Film and Video in 2012. Committed to community, she has served as President of the Women’s Bar Association of DC and on several nonprofit and association boards including the District of Columbia Board of Governors, the American Bar Association Science and Technology Law Section (as its Chair), DC Refers, Docs In Progress and Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. Ms. Posessky is a Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence.
Ms. Possessky earned her J.D. from Georgetown University, distinguished with the Dean’s Certificate for Service to the Community. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa.
Here is a link to the Zoom videoconference link to participate.

Topic: AI Task Force Meetup
Time: Dec 14, 2023 01:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82934333651?pwd=RytWbmpKNHA4MmtqTlZTVCtYalZHQT09
Meeting ID: 829 3433 3651
Passcode: 889903
We hope you can attend this talk, and thank you for your interest.

Steve Wu
Chair, ABA Artificial Intelligence and Robotics National Institute
Advisory Committee Member, American Bar Association Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence.