• The New York City Bar Association today announced the launch of a presidential task force on artificial intelligence and digital technologies, naming partner Lorraine McGowen one of three chairs of the wide-ranging initiative.
• In addition, Wendy Butler Curtis, Orrick's chief innovation officer, will co-chair one of the task force's nine subcommittees - she will help guide a subcommittee focused on tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, CoCounsel, Gemini, Mistral and Harvey, as well as IP issues, among other things.
• Alison Roffi, the firm's deputy general counsel, also will have a role on the task force, serving as a member of a subcommittee focused on analyzing and reporting on the Rules of Professional Conduct and other ethics-related issues.

The Task Force overall will focus on different areas of artificial intelligence, including access to justice, commerce and finance, national security, healthcare, legal ethics, liabilities and remedies, and the international regulation of artificial intelligence.

The AI task force will absorb the work of the Bar's Task Force on Digital Technologies, which launched in June 2022 as the successor to the Working Group on Cryptocurrencies, which was formed in October 2021. Lorraine has been involved in those efforts over the past three years.

The New York Law Journal covered the announcement.