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The decisions behind the systems.

AI Lex Intelligence is an independent publication about the choices behind artificial intelligence and what happens when those choices come under legal scrutiny.

The questions begin in ordinary places. An employer adopts a hiring tool. A company puts a safety policy in writing. Someone turns to a chatbot for help. Each is a starting point for an inquiry into who had control, what they knew, and what the law required of them.

The publication follows those questions through litigation, legislation, and the work of governing AI. A dispute may turn on the distance between what a policy says and what someone actually did. A new legal duty raises a different question: how an organization will put it into practice. The interest lies in following the argument far enough to explain what changes for the people involved, and what remains unsettled.

Governance belongs in that account from the beginning. Who can stop a deployment, how a warning reaches the right person, and what records are kept are choices made before a dispute arises. AI Lex examines how those choices stand up to legal scrutiny, and what the scrutiny teaches about making them.

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Written and edited by Zola Valashiya

Zola Valashiya is a legal and AI governance professional whose work connects technology law and policy with the practical questions of building and running a legally defensible AI governance program. As a Strategic Advisor at Coopersmith Law + Strategy, he leads the firm's AI governance advisory capability. His experience with healthcare clients spans provider-side contracting, privacy and data protection, and AI governance. He works with organizations on regulatory analysis, risk and readiness assessments, and AI impact assessments, drawing on the EU AI Act, state AI legislation, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and ISO/IEC 42001.

His background also includes in-house corporate legal work at Remitly, a global fintech company. His work covered international corporate governance, regulatory coordination, and entity maintenance across multiple jurisdictions.

His legal training spans technology and international development: an LL.M. in Innovation and Technology Law from Seattle University School of Law and an LL.M. in Sustainable International Development from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was a Barer Scholar. He also completed the AI Ethics, Regulation and Compliance Programme at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.

His work in AI policy includes fellowships with Convergence: Technology Policy Institute and Black in AI Safety & Ethics (BASE). He holds IAPP certifications as an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) and a Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), and is a PMI Certified Professional in Managing AI (PMI-CPMAI). He also holds the PECB Certified ISO/IEC 42001 Provisional Implementer credential, covering the implementation of artificial intelligence management systems.

These experiences inform AI Lex's attention to both the legal argument and the organizational decisions behind it.

Zola Valashiya, editor of AI Lex Intelligence
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