AI Policy & Practice Hub

“As a bar association, we of course need to consider the practical issues of how to – and how not to – incorporate AI into the provision of legal services and the administration of justice. But with law being where ethics and morality interact with the regulation of human conduct, and with the potent impact AI is bringing across society with both great promise and great peril, it is incumbent on organizations like ours to facilitate discussion about these issues among thought leaders, lawyers, scientists, technologists, academics, business leaders, ethicists, citizens and policymakers.” Muhammad U. Faridi, President, New York City Bar Association (September 9, 2024)
With more than 250 professionals with the requisite knowledge and experience, the New York City Bar Association’s Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies, along with many of the City Bar’s standing committees, seeks to provide our members, the legal community and society at large with an understanding of: (1) business models of the creators and deployers of new technologies; (2) the features of the products and services offered by the creators and the deployers of the new technologies; (3) the policy choices made by governmental authorities that write, implement, administer, oversee and enforce the laws; (4) the determinations made by courts and other judicial and administrative bodies; (5) the guidance and protocols issued by standard-setters; and (6) guidance provided by thought leaders, and others.
The content below represents the body of educational work produced by the Task Force in support of these goals.
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Monthly Featured Artificial Intelligence Programs and Activities
Informed Consent and the Use of AI in Healthcare (February 5, 2026)
Summary: This Task Force podcast explores the ethical and legal dimensions of informed consent in AI healthcare settings.
Navigating President Trump’s National AI Policy Framework (January 29, 2026)
Summary: This podcast examines President Trump’s December 11, 2025 Executive Order, titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.
NY Passes Emerging Technologies Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code with City Bar’s Help (December 5, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses the multi-year collaboration among the Task Force, the Uniform Law Commission, and the New York delegation to the Uniform Law Commission regarding the New York Emerging Technologies Amendments to the New York Uniform Commercial Code that led to the New York Governor signing into law a bill that modernizes the New York Uniform Commercial Code. The podcast also includes a detailed analysis of the new law signed by the Governor.
Artificial Intelligence Content by Subject Area (Click Below to Expand)
Access to Justice
How Microsoft AI Is Expanding Capacity for DACA Clinics with the North West Immigrant Rights Project (April 17, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force podcast highlights Microsoft’s use of generative artificial intelligence technology to address the access to justice gap in the United States.
Civil Liberties
AI and Civil Liberties: Law Enforcement in “Wexford” (October 2, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force podcast brings together representatives from law enforcement, the defense bar, the judiciary, and the civil liberties community to provide insights into real world legal disputes in a criminal law proceeding where artificial intelligence is a major challenge for all stakeholders.
Commerce and Finance
Methodologies for AI Assessments, Reviews and Audits (November 6, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force podcast explains the differences in methodology among AI assessments, AI reviews and AI audits and when and why it is appropriate to conduct each based upon the goals to be achieved.
AI in Commerce and Finance (June 12, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses artificial intelligence governance in the financial sector.
Reflections on US Treasury Department Report on AI in Financial Services (February 20, 2025) by the Task Force Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence in Commerce and Finance
Summary: The Task Force report highlights Treasury’s top policy considerations and provides reflections on those recommendations.
Who Do You Trust to Lead: New York, Colorado or NAIC on Approaches to AI in Insurance (May 16, 2024)
Summary: This Task Force podcast dives into the complex landscape of artificial intelligence in the insurance sector, highlighting the unique regulatory environment in the United States where insurance is state regulated and covers the role of key states such as New York and Colorado and the national guidance provided by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on the use of AI in insurance in a range of areas.
Copyright
Scott J. Sholder: On Generative A.I. and the Art of Copyright Litigation (June 26, 2025)
Summary: This podcast covers the latest developments at the intersection of copyright law and generative artificial intelligence.
Ethics
To Infinity and Beyond: The Ethical Considerations of Using AI in Your Practice (October 1, 2025)
Summary: This webinar discusses how to effectively and ethically use artificial intelligence in the legal context and how to avoid the risks related to its use.
Current Ethics Opinions and Reports Related to Generative Artificial Intelligence (May 28, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force report highlights key requirements from American Bar Association ethics opinions, formal ethics opinions from California, Washington, D.C., Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, New York (i.e., the New York City Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association), Pennsylvania (e.g., the Philadelphia Bar Association), Minnesota, Missouri, West Virginia, and the Massachusetts Attorney General and the New York Attorney General. The report covers ethics opinions, bar association reports, and other resources and discusses how the legal profession is currently using artificial intelligence and may be relevant to practitioners seeking to learn more about generative artificial intelligence and legal ethics
Ethical Duties Surrounding Digital Technology Innovations (May 3, 2024)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses how lawyers can understand and comply with existing ethics rules when using artificial intelligence. The podcast discusses the implications for the duties of confidentiality, disclosure and transparency while examining whether past leaps in technology can inform the use of artificial intelligence today.
Generative Artificial Intelligence
Could Agentic AI Be Your Next Legal Intern? (October 31, 2024)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses the power and potential of Agentic Artificial Intelligence.
Healthcare
Informed Consent and the Use of AI in Healthcare (February 5, 2026)
Summary: This Task Force podcast explores the ethical and legal dimensions of informed consent in AI healthcare settings.
Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Care (October 16, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force CLE program covers how artificial intelligence is used to improve health care from diagnosis and treatment to research and administration as well as the challenges posed. The program also focuses on the laws, regulations, and practices in three clinical decision support systems and medical devices; insurance and payment decisions; and informed consent and privacy.
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: An Overview of Laws, Policy, and Practices (November 6, 2024)
Summary: Artificial Intelligence impacts nearly every aspect of health care: drug discovery, clinical research, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, public health, administrative efficiencies, and more. This Task Force program will provide an overview of artificial intelligence and its uses in health care, artificial intelligence governance, and the regulatory landscape as well as special issues including bias, privacy, transparency, and explainability.
International
The Role of Regulation in Artificial Intelligence: A Global Perspective (March 27, 2025)
Summary: During this Task Force webinar, the panelists compare the different global approaches to the regulation of artificial intelligence.
UN Summit of the Future: International Regulation of AI (November 4, 2024)
Summary: This Task Force roundtable discussion features distinguished speakers from the United Nations, the OECD, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund to share their perspectives and experiences on the global governance and policy development of artificial intelligence, and to explore ways to foster international cooperation and alignment on artificial intelligence to ensure artificial intelligence systems are transparent, fair and sustainable.
Judiciary
Artificial Intelligence and Federal Courts: What Lawyers Need to Know (January 29, 2026) by the Task Force and the Federal Courts Committee
Summary: This webinar covers artificial intelligence and ethics; artificial intelligence and evidence; and artificial intelligence and Access to Justice.
Should Lawyers and Judges Be Required to Disclose Their Use of AI? (January 16, 2025)
Summary: In this Task Force podcast, Judge Rodriguez and Professor Grossman consider a number of court cases and court rules addressing disclosure issues related to the use of artificial intelligence in the judiciary.
AI and the NYS Judiciary: A Preliminary Path (June 3, 2024) by a collaboration between the Council on Judicial Administration and the Task Force through the Working Group on Judiciary Administration and Artificial Intelligence
Summary: The report addresses the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the New York State judiciary and includes a summary of certain key issues that are important for the judiciary to consider in the near-term, as well as certain recommendations based on the current state of artificial intelligence development.
The AI Revolution Comes to the Courtroom (April 11, 2024)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses the challenges at the intersection of AI and evidence and how professional responsibility rules cover the use of artificial intelligence in the practice of law.
Labor and Employment
Synthetic Employees in the Future of Work (February 12, 2026)
Summary: This Task Force podcast explores the implications of integrating AI-driven synthetic workers into organizations.
Liabilities and Remedies
Liabilities and Remedies for AI: Charting New Territory (February 6, 2025)
Summary: This podcast surveys an emerging landscape of legislation around liabilities and remedies related to the use of artificial intelligence under key state, federal and international bodies covering topics such as disclosure and transparency; the safety of minors; deep fakes; non-consensual intimate imagery; and intellectual property.
National Security
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Financial Services (March 11, 2024) by a collaboration between the Compliance Committee and the Task Force
Summary: The report (1) summarizes the definitions of AI/ML used by different regulatory agencies; (2) provides examples of how AI/ML may benefit a financial institution’s AML/CFT Compliance Program; (3) describes the material risks and challenges with implementing AI/ML in AML/CFT Compliance Programs, and strategies for overcoming some of those risks and challenges; (4) discusses certain trends in AI/ML in AML/CFT Compliance; and (5) ends with a conclusion and some observations.
Fighting for National Security and Financial Stability in the Digital Tech Arena (March 7, 2024)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses the national security issues raised when bad actors use advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence.
People with Disabilities
AI and Accessibility (June 13, 2025) by the Task Force Subcommittee on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on People with Disabilities and Underserved Communities
Summary: The Task Force highlights the harmful effects of artificial intelligence on people with disabilities, and the harm likely to occur for them in the future.
The Impact of the Use of AI on People with Disabilities (June 12, 2025) by the Task Force Subcommittee on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on People with Disabilities and Underserved Communities
Summary: Research studies and focus groups have found that AI-generated text and images often misrepresent the experiences of people with disabilities and reinforce harmful stereotypes, and AI-generated responses have been found to provide inaccurate information to user prompts, which misleads people with disabilities who rely on the responses to summarize inaccessible content and other resources. The Task Force maintains that a disability-inclusive AI ecosystem requires sustained collaboration among policymakers, industry, and the disability community. In response to these challenges, the report proposes ten recommendations for the development and implementation of AI systems, including increased inclusion of people with disabilities in designing new tools, mandating accessibility data inclusion in AI training sets, and continuous review by policymakers of anti-discrimination frameworks for AI.
Practice Tips
Best Practices To Avoid A Legal Malpractice Claim (February 26, 2026) by Attorney Protective
Summary: This webinar discusses the impact of nuclear verdicts, the ethical implications of being underinsured, and how you can protect yourself and your firm through strong client intake procedures.
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence Institute Fireside Chat on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (June 16, 2025)
Summary: During this Fireside Chat, Dr. Moiz Khan explores how artificial intelligence and robotics work together to address a range of important areas such as helping people with disabilities, making surgeries safer and more effective, and improving the safety of autonomous vehicles.
Legislative Advocacy and Policy Content (Click Below to Expand)
Emerging Technology and the Uniform Commercial Code
NY Passes Emerging Technologies Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code with City Bar’s Help (December 5, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses the multi-year collaboration among the Task Force, the Uniform Law Commission, and the New York delegation to the Uniform Law Commission regarding the New York Emerging Technologies Amendments to the New York Uniform Commercial Code that led to the New York Governor signing into law a bill that modernizes the New York Uniform Commercial Code. The podcast also includes a detailed analysis of the new law signed by the Governor.
New York Emerging Technologies Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (June 30, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force report explains the Task Force support for the enactment of the New York Emerging Technologies Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code. The proposed Amendments aim to modernize New York’s UCC to address digital assets like electronic payment rights, tokenized assets, and cryptocurrencies. The amendments include introducing a new Article 12 for controllable electronic records, allowing electronic promissory notes and bills of exchange, and facilitating electronic commerce by recognizing electronic equivalents of “written” or “signed” requirements. The Amendments are designed to maintain New York’s leadership in commercial and financial transactions, particularly in the digital asset space, by enhancing transactional certainty and efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence Policy
America’s AI Action Plan (February 19, 2026)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses President Trump’s July 2025 AI Action Plan titled Winning the Race America’s AI Action Plan.
Navigating President Trump’s National AI Policy Framework (January 29, 2026)
Summary: This Task Force podcast examines President Trump’s December 11, 2025 Executive Order, titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.
Analyzing President Trump’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence (March 6, 2025)
Summary: This Task Force podcast discusses President Trump’s January 23, 2025, Executive Order on artificial intelligence titled Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. The podcast features insights from Task Force members on the implications of reversing President Biden’s artificial intelligence policies.
Continuing Legal Education Content (Click Below to Expand)
Full-Day Programs
Artificial Intelligence Institute 2025 (June 16, 2025)
Summary: This full-day, in-person Artificial Intelligence Institute is designed to provide clarity in four key areas: (1) Generative Artificial Intelligence and Legal Ethics; (2) Artificial Intelligence, Commerce and Finance, National Security, and Liabilities and Remedies: Opportunities and Challenges; (3) Artificial Intelligence, the Judiciary and Access to Justice; and (4) Artificial Intelligence, Neurotechnology and People with Disabilities and Underserved Communities.
Artificial Intelligence Institute 2024 (June 10, 2024)
Summary: This full-day, in-person Artificial Intelligence Institute is designed to provide clarity in four key areas: (1) The Use of Artificial Intelligence in AML/CFT Compliance; (2) The Use of Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence; (3) The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Commerce and Finance, including in Banking, Securities, Commodities, and Insurance: and (4) The Use of Artificial Intelligence in the New York Judiciary.
Partial-Day Programs
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: An Overview of Laws, Policy, and Practices (November 6, 2024)
Summary: Artificial Intelligence impacts nearly every aspect of health care: drug discovery, clinical research, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, public health, administrative efficiencies, and more. This program will provide an overview of artificial intelligence and its uses in health care, artificial intelligence governance, and the regulatory landscape as well as special issues including bias, privacy, transparency, and explainability.
UN Summit of the Future: International Regulation of AI (November 4, 2024)
Summary: This roundtable discussion features distinguished speakers from the United Nations, the OECD, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund to share their perspectives and experiences on the global governance and policy development of artificial intelligence, and to explore ways to foster international cooperation and alignment on artificial intelligence to ensure artificial intelligence systems are transparent, fair and sustainable.