City Bar Presidential Task Force on AI and Digital Tech Continues Expansion and Focus on Thought Leadership
Brief Introduction
April 2025 was the seventh full month of activities of the Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies (Task Force). During April 2025, the Task Force Co-Chairs continued to emphasize short 5 to 10 page analyses from the Task Force and continued to build out some of the subcommittees while at the same time adding another subcommittee.
April 2025 Task Force Activities
On April 15, 2025, the Task Force published its Quarterly Blog on Task Force Activities titled City Bar Presidential Task Force on AI and Digital Tech Continued Fast and Productive Pace During the 4th Quarter 2024 and the 1st Quarter 2025.
On April 17, 2025, the Task Force released a podcast tilted How Microsoft AI Is Expanding Capacity for DACA Clinics with the North West Immigrant Rights Project. The podcast was moderated by The podcast was moderated by Task Force Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice Member and Albany Law Professor Ray Brescia and featured Microsoft’s Global Pro Bono Manager and Digital Strategist Adrián Palma; Microsoft’s UX/UI designer instrumental in designing the DACA Copilot from a user and Responsible AI perspective Amae Kurre; and Executive Director, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Executive Director Malou Chavez. This podcast explored an ongoing use of artificial intelligence in service of access to Justice, including the creation of the DACA Copilot project, led by Adrián Palma. Among other things, the podcast highlighted the partnership between Microsoft and NWIRP, the challenges and successes of the project, and the broader implications of AI in pro bono work.
On April 17, 2025, the Task Force also established a new Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence and Civil Rights Laws to address the implications and impact of the use of artificial intelligence in civil rights and civil liberties litigation and the use of artificial intelligence to enforce federal, state and local law, including statutes and regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), disability, religion, familial status, national origin, and citizenship status. The current members of the Subcommittee include (1) Co-Chair Elizabeth M. Daitz, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Suffolk County Police Department; (2) Cynthia “Cindy” Guerra, Executive Chief Assistant Public Defender for Operations and Assistant General Counsel, Public Defender, 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida; (3) Amreeta Mathai, Director of Strategy and Integrated Programs, New York Civil Liberties Union; (4) Jonathan Parham, Business Administrator/Chief Communications Officer, City of Rahway; (5) Christian Quinn, Managing Principal, Fulcrum Innovation LLC; and (6) Andrew Warshawer, Deputy Chief of the Trial Division, Counsel for Emerging Technologies, New York County District Attorney’s Office.
On April 23, 2025, during the Task Force monthly zoom call, Task Force Co-Chair Edward So announced that as a part of the normal City Bar process, he will transition off the Task Force on June 30, 2025.
By April 30, 2025, the Task Force had 251members, 15 artificial intelligence subcommittees, 14 digital technologies subcommittees, and 4 Task Force working groups.