“The old human-in-the-loop rules really don’t work as well when you’re looking at ubiquitous, automated AI agents that are acting 24/7 as digital workers.”
Danny Tobey, M.D., J.D.
Chair, AI and Data Analytics
DLA Piper
…speaking at Convergence AI Dallas on March 31
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We’re moving “from an era of chatbot AI, where there is always a human at the receiving end of recommendations, to agentic and physical AI,” a world, Danny Tobey said, where AI “takes actions and makes decisions on behalf of humans” and “does so in ways that don’t always stop for human intervention, permission and understanding.” Companies that built AI governance programs years ago are calling him back for version 2.0, he added.
DLA Piper’s Tobey delivered a bottom line for business leaders: “RAI is ROI,” or responsible AI is return on investment. From there, Tobey’s colleague Sean Fulton and federal policy architect Dean Ball dug into what the U.S. action plan got right, what was left on the cutting room floor, and if ignoring a superhuman AI system could become the new negligence. Read more in our in-depth feature.
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