Generative AI: Legal Risks, Business Opportunities
With a background in law and technology development, Cameron is ideally suited to take on, and explain to audiences, how GenAI works, shouldn’t be expected to work, and can either create or destroy value (and intellectual property).
Cameron teaches executives and employees how to mitigate the legal risks of human-mimicking GenAI; how to spot opportunities to increase productivity, cut costs, or develop new products; how to develop internal policies and governance procedures; and how to work with, not for, Large Language Models like ChatGPT.
One of Cameron’s most popular talks is called:
Use it Or Lose It: How to Use GenAI to Avoid Dementia, Delight Audiences, and Preserve Copyright
With GenAI, collaborate, don't abdicate
Will we someday find that the generations of people alive today — yours — developed dementia at the highest rates in history? (Spoiler: because of GenAI)
We need to work with GenAI as an athlete works with a teammate: rely, yes, but stay fit and agile yourself. Trust, but verify. Revision makes better work product, period; it’s the concentrated thinking that consumers of our work want to consume; and it’s the only way to preserve any copyright in your work.
To stay fit, you’ve GOT to find ways to keep using your mind.
Avoid atrophy of critical thinking
We’ve already lost the ability to memorize numbers. To add or
multiply them. To know how to get around town without GPS. The
critical thinking skills that are your own life insurance are now at
risk in a way they never have been.
“[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise.” — Microsoft researchers.
That’s why one of the key technologies, and cognitive workouts, Cameron recommends is the seemingly simple act of REVISION. Editing. Polishing. Thinking about and coming back to. Taking a first draft from ChatGPT and calling it a day isn’t just bad for your copyrights; it could lead to quicker cognitive decline of the kind we all want to avoid.