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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Law

Seize AI’s huge potential with advice from a team that helps you navigate its complexities and maximize every opportunity.

AI and machine learning are transforming all industries, creating new opportunities and challenges. To harness AI’s potential and manage its risks, business and government leaders need to balance innovation with change management and regulatory compliance through effective AI governance.

McCarthy Tétrault’s AI Law Group is your ideal partner for navigating this dynamic and complex space. We are a team of Canada’s top lawyers with deep industry knowledge and a passion for AI. Our technological acumen is enhanced through the expertise of MT❯3, an award-winning division of McCarthy Tétrault that specializes in using machine learning tools and AI for e-Discovery and information governance. Together, we can help you explore new AI applications and processes that save time and money on your most important files. With a long track record of excellence and insight, we offer:

  • Multidisciplinary advice: As a full-service, national law firm, we draw on award-winning expertise from across the full legal spectrum, including litigation and dispute resolution, M&A, technology law, labour and employment, competition law and much more. Whether you’re using AI to grow into a new space or responding to unexpected dilemmas in its implementation, we can keep your work in-house for comprehensive and holistic support that covers all domains, including the ones you may not have considered.
  • Deep understanding of AI: Our team leaders have been implementing and writing about transformative technologies for decades, including AI. We understand the opportunities and dangers from both a technical and legal perspective. In the race to integrate AI, the expertise of Canada’s top legal advisors can help you shape impactful strategies and set you apart from the competition.
  • Strategic guidance and insight: In a fast-moving landscape, detailed knowledge of AI’s technological, legal and regulatory developments in the European Union and the United States is essential to stay ahead. With strategic advisors that include former government ministers and a clerk of the Privy Council of Canada, and with deep ties within leading international technology associations, we have our ears to the ground in the cities and countries where government and technologists are shaping the future of AI.

Meeting AI’s unique challenges with innovation and experience

We recognize the principal risks in developing and deploying AI in environments undergoing rapid change. Our tailored legal advice can help you mitigate potential challenges surrounding responsible AI governance; confidentiality, data and privacy; transparency and explainability; legal and regulatory compliance; biased output; intellectual property protection or infringement; vendor management; mergers and acquisitions; class actions; dispute resolution and much more.

Our global experience collaborating with businesses, policymakers, and regulatory bodies, combined with our deep expertise in technology, infrastructure, intellectual property, commercial transactions, banking and financial services, health, and privacy and cybersecurity, equips us with the knowledge to help you apply AI safely and cost-effectively in any sector of the economy.

Our team can support yours in managing and mitigating your organization’s AI risk, including by:

  • Conducting AI-related due diligence and risk mitigation for M&A and complex commercial transactions
  • Developing AI governance processes and policies that are compliant and align with industry best practices, including as regards vendor management
  • Assisting with the development of practical guidelines to address the legal and compliance risks of deployment of generative AI tools and general purpose AI systems within your organization
  • Advising on ways of mitigating legal and compliance risks associated with the development and deployment of “high risk” and “high impact” AI systems
  • Assessing legal risks associated with AI data sets impacting personal information or human rights
  • Assisting with the development of algorithmic impact assessments
  • Supporting the structuring, drafting and negotiation of data trust, data sharing, and data licensing arrangements
  • Understanding the legal limitations on using automated decision-making systems
  • Interacting with regulators asserting jurisdiction over AI processes
  • Mapping platform liability risks
Artificial intelligence (AI) Risks and Opportunities

Artificial intelligence (AI) Risks and Opportunities

The series will arm you with the information you need to effectively navigate the opportunities and challenges stemming from a variety of AI-related legal issues.

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