How Legal Leaders at Block and Spotify Get to Yes on AI

Block and Spotify legal leaders Chrysty Esperanza and Kevan Choset argue that blocking AI is riskier than enabling it, and that legal teams should embed themselves in product development, write internal rules before regulators act, and build tools to streamline AI governance.

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Legal departments get labeled the Department of "no." Block Chief Legal Officer Chrysty Esperanza and Spotify General Counsel Kevan Choset run theirs on the opposite premise: in AI, blocking is the riskier move.
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