The Ethical and Regulatory Impacts of Using Your Data to Train AI

Garylene “Gage” Javier is a technology lawyer and member of the Privacy and Cybersecurity practice group at Crowell & Moring LLP's Washington, D.C. office. Leveraging her diverse background in science and business, she specializes in guiding clients through the complex realm of privacy and cybersecurity, advising startups and multinational corporations.

With a deep understanding of organizational privacy and cybersecurity needs, Gage provides counsel on risk assessment, compliance, crisis management, and investigations. She devises tailored compliance strategies and assessments based on industry-specific best practices and applicable laws. Gage also develops incident response plans and tabletop exercises to ensure organizations can effectively handle cybersecurity incidents. She represents clients in technology litigation, internet enforcement actions, and investigations into cybercrime, fraud, data breaches, and brand infringements. Gage is experienced in devising proactive cyber strategies to disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations engaged in cybercrimes.

Gage is a prolific writer and speaker on cutting-edge technologies, including biometrics, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse. Her contributions to legal discourse were recognized with the 2023 Law360/Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. She was also listed on the 2023 Lawyers of Color Hot List.

In addition to her legal endeavors, Gage is a mayoral appointee and serves on the District of Columbia Innovation and Technology Inclusion Council working to grow DC’s innovation and tech economy. She has over 15 years of experience managing teams at the local, regional, and national level and is dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion within the legal profession, serving as the immediate past president of the National Filipino American Lawyers Association. Gage currently serves on the American Bar Association Cybersecurity Legal Task Force.

Gage received her J.D. from Appalachian School of Law, her LL.M. in dual concentrations of Intellectual Property and Criminal Law with a focus on computer crimes from American University Washington College of Law, and dual MBAs from both Cornell University and Queen’s University.

Jason serves as Chair of the Buying Legal Council (BLC), a global membership organization comprising in-house professionals, law firms, and other legal service providers. He leads the BLC in providing education and knowledge-sharing to enterprise legal and procurement teams on best practices for buying legal services and legal technology. Jason is also Managing Partner of Argopoint, where he has extensive experience advising General Counsel and corporate legal departments on their most important management challenges. He has supported a range of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, retail, consumer products, financial services, media, manufacturing, insurance, education, non-profits, and utilities.

Jason has worked with some of the world’s largest legal departments to optimize their legal technology and processes, manage law firm relationships, and provide bespoke insights from benchmarking. In 2005, Jason was the “outside architect” of a law firm partnering program for the fifth largest legal department in the United States – optimizing the use of hundreds of law firms. This groundbreaking program improved quality and reduced costs in excess of one hundred million dollars annually, establishing an industry model for outside counsel management programs and RFPs. Jason’s work spans litigation, commercial law, intellectual property (patents and trademarks, copyright, etc), employment, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, government investigations, compliance, privacy, eDiscovery, claims defense, and regulatory law.

Jason's pioneering work has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case on legal efficiency, and he was recognized as a legal services business authority in a whitepaper commissioned by the American Bar Association. He was a contributing author to the Legal Procurement Handbook and co-founder of the Pharmaceutical Litigation Management Roundtable (started in 2006). Jason’s work and insights have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The ACC Docket, and more. Jason is an honors graduate of Harvard College and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was elected to lead the Dean's Forum on Business Ethics.

Julie Strachan Haiber is a Global Client Director at Thomson Reuters. She is the senior executive contact holistically overseeing the strategic relationship between Thomson Reuters and many of the largest global law firms.

Ms. Strachan Haiber has worked at Thomson Reuters for almost two decades in a variety of roles garnering extensive experience in legal technology, digital transformation, and innovation strategy. She is a seasoned speaker & panel moderator on topics such as innovation, artificial intelligence, document automation, client collaboration & leveraging knowledge management in support of pro bono & access to justice cases.

Ms. Strachan Haiber is an attorney admitted to practice to New York. She holds a JD from New York Law School and a BA from The George Washington University with a double major in English and Theatre. She also has a certificate in Digital Transformation of Legal Services from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

Steven Kelts is a Lecturer in Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and is affiliated with the University Center for Human Values (UCHV). He is also an ethics advisor to the Responsible A.I. Institute. He has recently published on the special nature of today’s tech firms and their potential for ethical action in a special issue of Technology and Society Magazine (peer-reviewed). He has also published with IEEE on the role of social responsibility in tech corporations in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Technology and Society 2021 (peer-reviewed).

He is the recipient of a grant from the Council on Science and Technology for a program called “Agile Ethics,” teaching undergraduate CS and Engineering majors how to consider ethical issues within their professional workflows. He also received a seed grant from Google to apply findings from this program in corporate environments, looking specifically at the uses and misuses of utilitarian logic by engineers on Agile teams (incl. Scrum, Kanban, MLOps, etc.). Kelts has published a recent review in Teaching Philosophy about instruction in tech ethics. His teaching on tech ethics has been recognized nationally.

At Princeton, Professor Kelts leads the GradFutures initiative on Ethics of AI for the Graduate School, with the objective of encouraging Ph.D. candidates to apply their disciplinary expertise in the field of tech ethics. The program has sent participants on to employment at Google, DeepMind, Meta, and other leading tech companies; former participants also work on the issue at some of America’s leading research universities. For this work, he was presented with the Clio Hall Award for significant contributions to the professional development of Princeton graduate students by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School in May 2022. In the summer of 2022 he was co-convenor (with Professor S.J. Brison of Dartmouth) of a workshop on Ethics and Information Technology, which brought together scholars from around the U.S. with responsible innovation professionals from Google and Meta, as well as a group of Dartmouth undergraduates.

Professor Kelts is dedicated to first-gen and low-income student success. He has been lead investigator on a UCHV-funded project looking at strategies to encourage FGLI student success at institutions beyond the Ivy League, and the ethical obligation of faculty to adopt proven teaching methods. For four years he was part of a team designing the curriculum for Princeton’s nationally-recognized FGLI program, the Freshman Scholars Institute. He recently published a review in Teaching Philosophy on pedagogy for first-gen students.

In 2020, Kelts banded together with former students at Princeton to found Kalos Academy, an all-volunteer non-profit mentoring FGLI students at colleges up and down the East Coast. Its vital work has been recognized widely, and now Professor Kelts represents Kalos on the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities’ national Council for Student Success.

As a curriculum consultant, Kelts helped to design and launch courses for the Teaching Center for Writing and Communication at Tsinghua University (Beijing). He has also designed, launched and taught courses for the successful EdTech startup Campus.org.

Ignatius Grande has been advising clients on issues relating to electronic discovery, information management, and data privacy
for more than 15 years. With his legal and technical expertise, Ignatius is able to bridge the gap that can exist between IT and legal/compliance personnel. Ignatius often works with companies to address complex information management issues, including the onboarding of new software and the implementation of advanced technologies and data analytics.

He has performed compliance risk assessments for corporations addressing records retention and data remediation. Ignatius has
worked with both law firms and companies to guide them through the eDiscovery and the forensic investigation process. He has
served as formal eDiscovery liaison for clients and has represented parties in eDiscovery disputes before a variety of regulators. Ignatius also works with companies to effectively implement information management practices and has drafted and revised a variety of corporate policies.