07/23/2026
ICYMI My piece on AI governance ran in the New York Law Journal.
The premise, AI governance is standing exactly where New York stood in the mid-1990s, when organized crime still controlled the City’s private carting industry and the law was years behind the facts on the ground. I know that moment firsthand — I spent four years as Commissioner and Chair of the NYC Business Integrity Commission, the agency that replaced the cartel with a licensing regime. After wrapping up that role this spring, I’m now focused full-time on where AI governance is heading — and this piece is part of that work.
The need to build the operational governance structure before the statute requires it, because the statute takes a while to catch up.
That’s exactly where AI is right now. In the five months beginning this February, four courts issued four different rulings on where AI-assisted legal work falls on the privilege/work-product line — with no federal statute yet organizing any of it. The RAISE Act covers large frontier developers. The DOJ has an AI Litigation Task Force targeting state AI laws. And everyone actually deploying these tools — hospitals, law firms, research consortia — is still governed by old doctrine stretched to cover technology it was never written for.
Full piece: https://lnkd.in/gU7vdAxW
