Join the Wilson Sonsini AI and Corporate Governance teams and prominent legal scholar and Harvard Law professor, Noah Feldman, for a webinar exploring the key considerations for AI companies and how they are governed.

Topics that will be covered include:

• An overview of the recent AI corporate governance news and developments
• Why AI companies are adopting additional governance measures
• Pros and cons of the types of governance structures AI companies are using
• Corporate governance takeaways for boards and management 

Wilson Sonsini panelists: Barath Chari, David Berger, Amy Simmerman

Noah Feldman is an American legal scholar and academic. His work is focused on ethics, particularly responsible disruption and the regulation of artificial intelligence. Noah is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is the author of 10 books, host of the podcast Deep Background, and a public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Through his consultancy, Ethical Compass, Feldman advises clients like Facebook and eBay on how to improve ethical decision-making by creating and implementing new governance solutions.

David Berger is a litigation partner at Wilson Sonsini and a leader in the firm’s national corporate governance practice.  David has helped develop, and litigate, novel corporate governance structures for many of the country’s most innovative companies, including Alphabet (Google), Palantir, and The Trade Desk.  David is President of the American College of Governance Counsel and a director of The Long-Term Stock Exchange.

Amy Simmerman is a corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini, a leader of the firm’s Delaware office and corporate governance practice, and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors.  Amy advises a wide array of clients on complex corporate governance matters.  She regularly publishes and speaks on governance matters and is a member of the American College of Governance Counsel.

Barath Chari is a technology transactions partner in Wilson Sonsini’s San Francisco office. Barath represents technology companies at all stages of growth, from bootstrapped start-ups to leading global enterprises, in complex business transactions involving technology and intellectual property. In particular, he has deep experience assisting artificial intelligence companies with complex commercial and intellectual property matters.

David and Amy were part of the Wilson Sonsini team representing Anthropic in its creation of the Long-Term Benefit Trust.  An article they co-authored (with Yale’s John Morley, who also advised Anthropic) describing the LTBT in more detail may be found here.

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Wilson Sonsini’s corporate governance team represents the management teams, directors, and special board or management committees of some of the largest companies in the world. We provide trusted legal counsel to help clients resolve their most pressing challenges, address sensitive matters, and pursue their most important strategic opportunities. To learn more about Wilson Sonsini’s corporate governance team, please click here.