Professor Jennifer J. Cook Publishes Groundbreaking Article on AI and Data Privacy
Research compares U.S. and EU approaches, offering a new framework for regulating AI in legal practice
Associate Professor Jennifer J. Cook’s recent article, Assessing Risk & Protecting Personal Data: An EU Approach to Artificial Intelligence as a Model for the A.B.A.’s Model Rules, was published in the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology. The article is the first to examine the risk that attorneys’ use of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) in legal practice poses to personal data and offer a comparison of the American Bar Association’s (“A.B.A.”) and European Union’s (“EU”) differing approaches to providing guardrails for the use of AI technology. It is also the first to suggest the A.B.A. consider integrating the EU’s risk-based AI classification system and data protection requirements into its Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
In February, Professor Cook was invited to present her article’s research at the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology’s Data Privacy in the Age of Emerging Technologies Symposium held at the University of North Carolina School of Law.
