Artificial Intelligence as a Disruptive Technology: Economic Transformation and Government Regulation Second Edition 2025 Edition

This book highlights the remarkable technological changes taking place today that is profoundly changing almost all aspects of society including job creation and destruction, invasion of privacy to a degree nullifying its protection, the environments, replacement of human persons with machines, and innumerable other effects. The book focuses on the role of AI within a legal and regulatory context and explores in detail the attempts to obstruct major harms to society both in the United States and elsewhere. This book will be an invaluable resource for those working in this interdisciplinary field, exploring and using AI. It will also be a useful reference for students taking relevant course as well as legal practitioners looking for an accessible introduction to the key issues brought about by the almost daily advances in digital technologies.

Rosario Girasa is Distinguished Professor of Law at Pace University, New York, USA. He was a practicing attorney since 1962 and has taught law at Pace U. Lubin School for the past 45 years. He has authored over 130 articles and nine prior books, including a second edition of blockchain. Subject areas covered by the books include cyberlaw, finance law, shadow banking, blockchain, and artificial intelligence, mainly from a legal and regulatory perspective. He has lectured globally, appeared on television talk shows, presided over international conferences in Tunisia, and gave MBA courses at the University of Shanghai and in Stralsund, Germany.

Rosario Girasa is Distinguished Professor of Law at Pace University, New York, USA. He was a practicing attorney since 1962 and has taught law at Pace U. Lubin School for the past 45 years. He has authored over 130 articles and nine prior books, including a second edition of blockchain. Subject areas covered by the books include cyberlaw, finance law, shadow banking, blockchain, and artificial intelligence, mainly from a legal and regulatory perspective. He has lectured globally, appeared on television talk shows, presided over international conferences in Tunisia, and gave MBA courses at the University of Shanghai and in Stralsund, Germany.