How will current legislative approaches and proposals to regulate the provision and use of AI affect the practice of the legal profession? What are the ethical concerns arising from such regulation? Most importantly, would a proposed extraterritorial application of such regulations have impacts on the legal profession that is more international and connected than ever before?

These and many other questions draw on AI's role in rapidly permeating economies and societies, generating productivity gains, improving efficiency, and lowering costs, while at the same time leading to calls that facilitate the adoption of AI systems to promote innovation and growth, and help establish appropriate safeguards to ensure that such systems are beneficial for practitioners and clients, and shall not put in risk the respect for fundamental rights. The operators and practitioners are or will be certainly sectors that AI heavily impacts in terms of structuring business opportunities. The recent legislative developments and initiatives in Europe, North America, and various jurisdictions attest to this influence: should - or could - AI be harnessed so as to prevent its malleability based on the legal culture and rules on how a profession is executed extra-territorially?

Our panel of experts will address these topical questions shaping the AI-realm in the legal profession.