Managing the Risks and Rewards of AI in Law, Education, and Society ("AI Risks and Rewards") (2026 CLE)
John Bandler will present this CLE in October 2026 at Pace University's Law School (the Elisabeth Haub School of Law) relating to artificial intelligence (AI) and the law, and the many risks and rewards it brings. They are holding a conference on Friday, October 23, 2026.
- Pace Law AI and Law link: https://www.pace.edu/law/haub-law-50/ai-and-law-conference(opens in new tab)
This page provides additional resources and a background article relating to my talk.
Introduction and description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents risks and rewards for many facets of our world. Lawyers can start by viewing these risks through the lens of law, legal practice, and legal education, but we should also consider additional categories and the comprehensive view.
AI is the latest cyber tool to bombard both the news cycles and our psyches, presenting many issues. It perplexes many and the confusion is aided by abundant hype, marketing puffery, self-interests, misinformation, and misrepresentations.
Lawyers (and law students) need to take measures to ensure their knowledge, skills, learning, and work outputs are not damaged by improper use of AI tools.
Educators need to ensure they fulfill their mission to educate and develop future generations in a positive manner, and that their underlying decision-making process for weighing AI risks and rewards is ethical, reasonable, and defensible. This means resisting and disavowing improper decision factors.
Issues with AI extend past law, learning, and education into technology, business, national security, psychology, and democracy. A democratic nation of laws cannot ignore the comprehensive societal issues that AI brings. In such a country, the profession of lawyers hold a special role as protectors and explainers of law and what it should be. To properly suggest the evolutionary path for overlapping areas of AI, law, and democracy we need to first thoughtfully assess and weigh the full range of risks and rewards.
Points
Coming soon.
Additional reading and resources include
- My speaker bio:
- Cyberlaw (2025) book relevant chapters:
- Cyberlaw Chapter 3, Reading, Learning, Researching, Writing, and Artificial Intelligence Tools, and Ch 3 resource page, https://johnbandler.com/cyberlawbook-resources-ch03/
- Cyberlaw Chapter 33, Artificial intelligence, and Ch 33 resource page, https://johnbandler.com/cyberlawbook-resources-ch33/
- Risk and risk management
- 17.4 Risk management and decision making (preview)
- 37.4 Governance (management) (including risk management, protection, and legal compliance)
- 39.6 Risk and risk management
- Glossary
- Other relevant chapters:
- Policies (2024) book
- 2. The Five Components for Policy Work and Management explained
- 14.1 Risk and risk management
- Glossary
- AI's promise and problem for law and learning, https://johnbandler.com/ai-promise-and-problem (my Reuters article hosted here)
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Writing and Thinking, https://johnbandler.com/artificial-intelligence-writing-thinking
- AI Tools Will Not do it All for You (article), https://johnbandler.com/ai-tools-will-not-do-it-all-for-you/
- AI Tools Will Not do it All for You (video), https://youtu.be/bfAVUuPr2Hs(opens in new tab)
- Five Components for Policy Work and Management
To explore more of my work and this site:
- Cybersecurity main landing page
- See about my book on cyberlaw.
- See all my cyberlaw research and references, without even having to buy the book.
- Learn about the CIPP/US certification and my course on privacy and cybersecurity law.
- Contact John
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This is a page created for a specific CLE event, and after the event is over, this page will probably not be updated.
Posted 08/05/2026. Updated 10/08/2026.