Katherine B Forrest

July 29, 2024 | New York Law Journal

"There are a number of open questions with all regulation of AI, and in particular with regard to Frontier models. Over the next year or more, there will be additional clarity (I predict) around what capabilities and quantification measures constitute a Frontier model, how to measure those metrics, and what kind of controls should or need to be imposed."

By Katherine B. Forrest

6 minute read

April 29, 2024 | New York Law Journal

If you are wondering what the next big thing in AI is, it's AI agents. No doubt about it. Their capabilities are exciting, a little scary and essentially unknown. For legal practitioners, the issues that AI agents raise are complex.

By Katherine B. Forrest

6 minute read

January 29, 2024 | New York Law Journal

In this article, Katherine B. Forrest describes some of the academic papers and research regarding MLLMs before moving on to legal and other important issues that are similar between LLMs and MLLMs, those that are different but obvious improvements, and those that should cause us to watch developments in this area carefully.

By Katherine B. Forrest

9 minute read

August 28, 2023 | New York Law Journal

In this column, Katherine B. Forrest presents her views on how artificial intelligence will impact the legal profession moving forward. She also includes some practical guidance about what ethical and professional obligations lawyers should keep in mind as they contend with its increasing usage.

By Katherine B. Forrest

8 minute read

February 15, 2023 | New York Law Journal

As investment in NFTs has grown, so has the confusion and the questions surrounding what is really included in a purchase, writes contributor Katherine B. Forrest.

By Katherine B. Forrest

9 minute read

November 28, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Econometricians and securities lawyers need to fasten their seat belts and reconcile themselves to learning more about AI than they ever wanted or thought they would have to.

By Katherine B. Forrest

7 minute read

August 29, 2022 | New York Law Journal

In her Artificial Intelligence column, Katherine Forrest discusses the uses of voice biometrics—the unique way in which each person makes sounds and words, resulting in a voiceprint akin to a fingerprint.

By Katherine B. Forrest

7 minute read

June 10, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Emotion AI tools have arrived—and they are part of the tool box lawyers are starting to use. No doubt they can provide useful input. But it is also certain that over the next five to 10 years their accuracy and therefore utility will improve dramatically.

By Katherine B. Forrest

6 minute read

March 28, 2022 | New York Law Journal

How justice is and will be dispensed in worlds in which we have experiences, and live segments of our lives, does matter. But how our theories of justice will change, whether our "constitutional rights" follow us, whether a Hobbesian world of the past is suddenly a predominant world of the future—these are "TBD".

By Katherine B. Forrest

8 minute read

August 30, 2021 | New York Law Journal

There is not one answer to whether AI-created audio clips are good or bad—they can be both. The harder questions are how—or whether—we can control what someone "says we said" after our own death.

By Katherine B. Forrest

7 minute read