"This week, the 10th annual AI Summit kicks off at the cavernous Javits Center in New York City. The promoters describe it as an event that "[b]rings together visionary leaders, innovators and technologists who are shaping the future of artificial intelligence." Last year, there were over 5,000 attendees, over 100 exhibitors, and 350 speakers, according to the official website. This year promises those numbers will be exceeded."
"We've gone from AlphaGo beating a grand master at Go (2016) to LLMs (2022) to chatbots (2023) to agentic AI (2025) to speaking of AGI as a realistic possibility, all in one decade. As for technology in general, here's where we were in 2016: • Amazon released the Amazon Echo Dot • Slack was the hot new workplace tool with 4 million daily active users • iPhone 7 was the newest phone (no Face ID, and first haptic home button)"
"The overall speaker lineup reflects AI's extension from a tech curiosity 10 years ago to being embedded, for better or worse, across government, commerce, finance, and healthcare. Legal can't afford to ignore this shift and its ramifications and risks. I will be there covering for Above the Law and reporting what's being talked about and perhaps what's not. But before we get to that, it's worth pausing to see how far we've come in the decade since that first Summit in 2016."
The 10th annual AI Summit opens at the Javits Center in New York City with expectations to exceed last year's 5,000 attendees, 100 exhibitors, and 350 speakers. Keynote presenters include public-sector and private-sector AI leaders from New York City government, eBay, the United Nations, AstraZeneca, and TELUS Global Ventures. AI has progressed rapidly from AlphaGo in 2016 to LLMs, chatbots, and agentic systems by 2025, prompting serious discussion of AGI as a possibility. The technology now permeates government, commerce, finance, and healthcare, creating operational opportunities as well as legal risks that require attention.
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