Generative AI is revolutionizing the legal industry with a particular focus on data privacy. As laws and regulations shift, privacy professionals like Moya Novella, legal counsel for IBM, are playing a crucial role in navigating this changing landscape. Novella advises on advocacy, ethics, and policy for global privacy and AI legislations and regulations at IBM. She also teaches data privacy law at Albany Law School and Seton Hall University’s Law School.
Novella’s journey to becoming a lawyer began at a young age, leading her through various detours in the legal field until she obtained her juris doctorate. She emphasizes the importance of teaching and learning, evident in her roles as a professor and mentor to law students. Her work at IBM includes providing insight into AI policy to help shape effective privacy and AI laws around the globe.
Generative AI, like ChatGPT, is impacting the legal profession by changing how lawyers approach tasks such as writing briefs, legal research, and developing legal strategies. Novella emphasizes the need for lawyers to use AI tools judiciously to augment, not replace, their skills. With the rise of AI, privacy professionals are being called on to become AI governance professionals and leverage their expertise into the AI context.
Novella’s work extends globally, including speaking engagements on the intersection of AI and data privacy. She highlights the importance of understanding AI policies in different regions, such as Africa, to advance discussions on the impact of AI. She emphasizes the need for lawyers to find a balance between using AI tools efficiently while maintaining the skills necessary for higher-level reasoning and analysis.
In her book club, Novella is currently reading “Unmasking AI” by Joy Buolamwini, which delves into issues like facial recognition bias. The book club serves as a way to stay connected with friends from law school and foster community amidst the isolating nature of technology. For Novella, nurturing her community and finding ways to stay connected in person is just as important as her work as a privacy and AI professional.
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