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Texas AI Law TRAIGA Brings on Compliance Challenges: Analysis of the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act
This week, we're analyzing the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA) and how its structural flaws create significant compliance uncertainty for businesses operating in Texas.
Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA): A Summary
This week, let's summarize the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA), effective January 1, 2026, which establishes the first AI regulatory framework in Texas covering both "persons" and government agencies, with civil penalties up to $200,000 per violation and specific prohibitions against AI manipulation, and social scoring by governmental entities.
Why Law School Applications Are Up and What It Really Means
As law school applications surge 20% nationwide, let’s consider why the most secure legal careers may lie in relationship-based counseling rather than technology-adjacent fields that face increasing automation and operational shifts.
Security, Privacy, and Power: Why Lawyers Must Stand Up Now
This week, let’s consider how current institutional erosion and AI advancement create urgent challenges for the legal profession, emphasizing our responsibility to uphold constitutional principles, protect vulnerable populations, and ensure technological governance is guided by human dignity and respect.
AI-Washing Under Scrutiny: Texas AG Investigates DeepSeek's Claims
This week, let’s consider the Texas AG's investigation into DeepSeek as regulatory authorities at both state and federal levels now demand substantiation of AI marketing claims, creating a triple threat of regulatory scrutiny for companies that fail to implement proper due diligence and contractual safeguards.
The Shifting Landscape of AI Security
This week, let’s consider what examine the profound implications of abandoning Executive Order 14110's comprehensive framework, and what happens when speed trumps safety in AI development.
AI Marketing Claims Under FTC Scrutiny
This week, let’s consider two new enforcement actions brought by the FTC against two businesses for allegedly overstating their AI capabilities.
Scam Alert: AI Takes Financial Fraud to New Depths
This week, let’s direct our attention to the FBI’s recent warning about sophisticated financial scams leveraging artificial intelligence.
Hosch & Morris Co-Founder Featured in American Bar Association’s Exploration of AI
An interview with Kate Morris about AI and privacy is published in the American Bar Association’s December 2024 SciTech E-Privacy Newsletter.
Questions to Ask Your AI Vendor: A Checklist
This week, we’re presenting a checklist of questions that you should ask potential AI vendors.
When AI Creates a Podcast
This week, using Google Lab's NotebookLM tool, we transformed our recent post, “When AI Sings the Robot Lawyer Blues,” into a podcast hosted by two AI-generated hosts--though they didn't pronounce "Hosch" right, they captured the essence of our post, and we have thoughts on that.
When AI Sings the “Robot Lawyer Blues”
This week, an unexpected turn in presentation preparation led us to create a country song about Robot Lawyers and make suggestions about how legal professionals can thrive in the age of AI.
California’s New AI Laws
This week, let’s highlight five new laws enacted in California that regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially the use of deepfakes in election campaigns and the entertainment industry.
AI Optimization?
This week, let’s focus on the challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI) in advertising (along with Ruby martinis, Sex and the City, and so much more).
Meta's $1.4 Billion Texas Biometric Settlement
This week, let’s highlight Texas’s recent $1.4 Billion settlement with Meta stemming from its 2022 lawsuit accusing the “Artificial Intelligence empire” of building itself on the “backs of Texans” by violating the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI).
AI Legal Ethics: New Guidance from the ABA
This week, let’s consider the American Bar Association’s Formal Opinion 512 —new guidance regarding ethical considerations for attorneys using generative AI.
In the Dark: Understanding the Implications of “Shadow AI.”
This week, let’s consider the growing trend of “Shadow AI,” which refers to the unsanctioned use of AI tools or systems within an organization, often without the knowledge of the organization and outside of the organization’s governance framework.
Exploring EPIC’s Report on Outsourced AI Systems
Exploring EPIC’s Report on Outsourced AI Systems: This week, let’s consider government contracts for AI systems and the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s analysis of related issues, like privacy, cybersecurity, accuracy, bias, and more. Tips about procurement and contracting are included.
Health Privacy vs. Generative AI
This week, let’s consider the risks associated with the use of generative AI in healthcare settings, and explore ways to mitigate them, including the use of privacy-enhancing technologies.
AI Legal Ethics: New Guidance from New York
This week, let’s consider recent guidance issued by the New York State Bar Association's Task Force on AI and Ethics regarding the ethical and practical implications of the use of artificial intelligence by lawyers.