I am thrilled to announce that the ZwillGen Law Library is now available to all Luminos customers. The Law Library is a new offering in the Luminos platform that allows our customers to automate how they assess and test their AI for legal risks - all under legal privilege.
This is the first time a top-tier law firm has partnered with a software company to support automated AI governance. The library will help support our customers in complying with everything from state-level AI acts in the US to the EU AI Act, general purpose chatbots, standards for bias testing, de-identification and more.
I believe the law library will change the future of AI.
A Roadmap for the Future of AI Governance
So why is this new feature *such* a big deal?
The answer has to do with a question I have asked myself over and over again throughout the last decade. In the rush to adopt AI systems, I have often questioned how companies can ensure that AI systems are not just compliant with the laws, but how their decisions can also reflect our values.
I’ve asked myself questions like:
My answer has always been that lawyers, whose role is key to managing enterprise risk, must be at the center of these issues. But how? Lawyers oftentimes have a hard time keeping up with cutting-edge technology. We lawyers are trained to use Microsoft Word, not GitHub. And so the divide between lawyers and data scientists is large and has grown deeper as AI adoption and generative AI has taken off.
We started Luminos because our team came to the conclusion that the only way to fix this problem is through software - automating the way that legal expertise is applied to AI systems so that legal review can scale and so that companies don’t have to hire hundreds of in house lawyers just to keep up with the pace of AI adoption. We started Luminos so that some of the best lawyers in the world could work alongside some of the best data scientists in the world, with a shared vision of making the future of AI adoption safer.
Features like the ZwillGen Law Library are absolutely central to this vision.
The ZwillGen Law Library: What’s Under the Hood
The compliance burden on AI systems is increasing: there’s the EU AI Act, the Colorado and Utah AI Acts, requirements for algorithmic impact assessments on AI systems in Maryland, and dozens of similar proposals across the country and the world. What that means in practice is that lawyers, privacy personnel and others need to review and approve the AI their companies are deploying, all while staying up to date on evolving legal requirements - a rapidly moving target. The ZwillGen Law Library is what allows them to do this in practice.
The alternative? Days, weeks or months of manual reviews, delays, frustration and inefficient AI deployments - oftentimes forcing companies to choose between compliance on the one hand and full-scale AI adoption on the other. This is a lose-lose for companies needing to deploy AI and the wider world that needs AI systems to comply with the law.
Here’s how the Law Library works: Luminos customers can now access a library of different types of risk assessments within our platform, all built by the AI team at ZwillGen and updated over time to align to evolving legal requirements. In the library are forms to support compliance with a range of specific and general laws: state-level AI acts in the US, the EU AI Act, general purpose chatbots, standards for bias testing, de-identification and more.
What’s so exciting is that each form allows for automation: low risk systems can be identified prior to legal review, saving time and resources, and AI systems requiring in-depth legal review can be automatically flagged for in-house review (previously a manual exercise) or analysis by the ZwillGen team. The forms can also incorporate the Luminos suite of bias tests for AI systems and underlying data, saving time and resources that are all-too-often spent on figuring out the right set of tests, implementing them, and then analyzing their results. Instead, every part of an AI risk assessment can occur in one place, in one form, created by ZwillGen lawyers and available in the Luminos platform.
Data scientists and business users get to streamline their AI review process, going from weeks or months to days or even hours. Lawyers and privacy personnel have a centralized, self-service and always-up-to-date process and repository for all their AI risk assessments. And they can assert legal privilege over every step in the process.
The Visionary Team at ZwillGen
Now it’s time for some shout-outs, specifically to the visionary team at ZwillGen. It takes a truly forward-thinking law firm to take a leap into automated legal approaches to AI risk, and we are launching this feature in close partnership with ZwillGen because they see the future. They know that legal expertise is expensive, and manual, and should be applied efficiently and conscientiously. They know that how companies leverage legal expertise has to change when it’s done alongside AI. Every AI system cannot be reviewed manually by a lawyer. There are too many AI systems and not enough lawyers. AI systems would never get deployed in practice.
Instead, the biggest challenge facing companies is knowing what risks require manual review and specialized expertise and which don’t - this offering is what helps companies distinguish between the two in practice. The ZwillGen Law Library will help companies flag the AI that poses concrete risks that need legal analysis, and it will help companies identify what lower-risk systems do not. It will help support companies in ensuring all their AI systems stay compliant with evolving legal standards.
I should say that more broadly, I’ve heard about ZwillGen and Marc Zwillinger for years - their team has a reputation for being the top technology lawyers in the country. Ever since I first interacted with them, they have lived up to their reputation. The Luminos team is thrilled to be working with Brenda Leong, who heads the ZwillGen AI Division, Jey Kumarasamy, and many others to get this feature into the hands of customers. This is only the beginning of our shared innovation to make sure that our customers’ AI systems are safe as AI adoption continues to change the world around us.
To learn more about the ZwillGen Law Library, you can reach out to our team at contact@luminos.ai. We’d love to hear from you!
