Companies are rapidly developing and adopting artificial intelligence (“AI”), including generative AI, to automate tasks and work streams.
In such an environment, it is critical that these organizations, their boards and shareholders can rely on trusted legal advisors to help them navigate the development, adoption, governance and commercialization of AI. Given the dynamic and often uncertain legal, regulatory and business environment, organizations need a multi-disciplinary approach that seamlessly integrates diverse substantive areas of law into coherent and actionable judgment and advice. Sullivan & Cromwell’s Artificial Intelligence Practice brings diverse practitioners together, advising clients on cutting-edge issues arising from groundbreaking developments in AI.
In the most significant deal in AI, S&C advised OpenAI – the company behind tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E – in its novel and highly impactful partnership with Microsoft.
S&C’s lawyers have unrivalled experience collaborating with clients on “first-of-kind” and “bet-the-company” deals involving AI development, adoption and commercialization. We have a deep understanding of the various legal, policy and ethical considerations raised by the technology, allowing us to advise on critical judgments in a dynamic and high-stakes environment.
In addition to transactional work, we counsel our clients on decisions and judgments critical to the deployment of AI, as well as a wide range of issues relating to AI adoption and deployment, including:
- Intellectual property and privacy considerations in the adoption and deployment of AI;
- AI governance, including establishing policies on the oversight and use of AI and governance of the adoption and deployment of AI;
- Disclosure requirements associated with AI risks;
- Cybersecurity considerations in the adoption and deployment of AI;
- Litigation, including relating to IP and product liability; and
- Regulatory considerations, both domestic and international.
Our AI lawyers work closely with domain specialists across the Firm and draw on S&C’s multidisciplinary experience to craft practical legal strategies in an environment of significant uncertainty. We regularly leverage the industry knowledge of lawyers across our leading practices, including Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions, Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation, Privacy, M&A, Capital Markets, Corporate Governance, Cybersecurity, Environmental, Social and Governance, Financial Services and Insurance. This close collaboration, a hallmark of the Firm, gives our AI teams the versatility to best serve the needs of our clients.
