Thinking like a lawyer about artificial intelligence leads to a better understanding of how to effectively and appropriately use AI, assess the risks, and identify policies to address the risks that technology creates. This thought-provoking guide helps lawyers, policymakers, executives, and others understand not just the technology of artificial intelligence, but the significance of AI for everyone.

Throughout the book, the author portrays AI as a series of predictive tools defined by functionality. Because AI performs many tasks in different fields, lawyers can consider which AI functions can be grouped by legal impact, generating operational problems, biased decisions, and intellectual property issues. This book suggests how several of these functional categories can be examined and regulated.

Written by industry leader, Ted Claypoole, this book begins with "What is artificial intelligence?" and examines why lawyers need to think differently about AI. He addresses different categories of AI such as generative, decision-making, personal identification, military, physician action, and the interesting question of whether AI should receive legal rights. The guide includes developing policy for novel AI problems and ends with a detailed discussion on lawyers using AI and ensuring compliance with professional rules of conduct.