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Cecilia Ziniti

Hear from Cecilia Ziniti and others at The AI Conference 2024!
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Attorney & General Counsel
Founder & CEO

Presentation Title:

AI Legal Issues:
A Tech General Counsel Turned GPT App Developer Breaks It Down

Presentation Summary:

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This talk will explain copyright, fair use, and legal issues for AI, and how to navigate them in development. Hear from a three-time general counsel and now AI application developer on the legal challenges and opportunities, and how to both protect yourself and move fast. The presentation will explore the latest legal cases including NYT v OpenAI, and discuss the implications for intellectual property rights.

Brain icon for The AI Conference 2023, a groundbreaking two-day event on AGI, LLMs, Infrastructure, Alignment, AI Startups, and Neural Architectures.

Attendees will learn the legal challenges in AI, with dozens of real-word examples of cases I’ve litigated or been involved in at companies from Replit, to Amazon, to Cruise. Exciting times!

About | Cecilia Ziniti

Cecilia Ziniti is the founder and CEO of a legal AI company, GC AI, built based on her experience as a 3-time general counsel and AI expert. For two decades, Ms. Ziniti has driven product and company success across major tech shifts and turned early technologies into iconic products that millions of people use every day.

As a three-time executive team member for venture-backed tech companies including software unicorn Replit, Ms. Ziniti has led all aspects of operations for hypergrowth. She has architected and closed partnerships with blue-chip companies like Google and Amazon and quarterbacked $300M+ in venture capital rounds from top-tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Index, and JP Morgan.

As the founding lawyer on Amazon Alexa and an early team member at Cruise, Ms. Ziniti understands tech adoption and how to earn public and regulator trust. Ms. Ziniti’s strategic insights make her sought-after by founders and have earned her global media appearances including on CNN and NPR.

Before Amazon, Ms. Ziniti was an intellectual property litigator and technology transactions attorney and represented Apple at Morrison & Foerster, an Am Law 20 firm. Ms. Ziniti is an inventor on four US patents. She has invested in and advises dozens of breakout and unicorn companies, including Replit, Instrumental AI, and Seek AI. Her first tech job was as an online community moderator in London.