Allison Gaul knows that AI regulation provides direction and can encourage adoption. She also knows that businesses waiting for more regulation who delay an AI strategy are encouraging risk.
Regulation that recognizes AI and privacy, as well as for IP rights – copyrights, patents and trade secrets – to be properly adopted and implemented will not happen quickly. Remember, we’re still waiting for Internet regulation.
“Applicable AI regulation could be years away,” Gaul told me recently. “As AI adoption accelerates, companies need to act proactively to develop risk, compliance, and ethical frameworks to ensure sustainable innovation and responsible IP use.”
Featured Speaker
Allison Gaul will be the opening keynote at this year’s IP Awareness Summit, beig held at the Center for Science and Industry in Columbus, OH. The topic of her talk,“AI’s Elusive Impacts: the Obvious, the Subtle and the Hidden.” It’s starts at 9:15 and can accessed on the free livestream link below. No registration necessary.
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Targeted Use Models
As AI continues to evolve, we’re going to see people drifting to targeted use models that have been trained on highly specific data sets, she continued.
“Fast-moving businesses cannot wait for guidelines. As AI adoption accelerates, it is crucial that companies act proactively to develop risk, compliance, and ethical frameworks to ensure sustainable innovation and responsible IP use.”
A Global AI and IP Strategist at Boston Consulting Group in Washington DC, supporting the firm’s innovation initiatives, Gaul is an expert in AI development, use, privacy and risk. An IP lawyer, she holds an advanced degree in Business Analytics from Harvard.
“We are deep into the Age of AI transformation, but many organizations are still struggling to find the biggest value for their investment,” says Gaul. “Productivity augmentation alone will not increase value. It’s the strategic and intentional redesign of core functions that show the most promise. And that means that IP strategy is likely to be more challenging but important than ever.”
From LLMs to SLMs
We are learning that targeted or small models (SLMs) are more cost effective for many companies to build on that those from businesses like ChatGPT and the Anthropics. Focusing on a proprietary single large language model (LLM) may be too expensive or limiting.
In addition to Gaul, other experts with frontline AI and IP rights experience who will be speaking at The IP Awareness Summit on April 23 include:
- Tony Trippe – Owens Corning AI director
- Ian McClure – Heading $200M AI implementation
- Daryl Lim – Penn State Dickinson; Ctr for Socially Responsible AI
- Corey Salsberg – Novartis; education advocate
- Massyl Mallam – AI company founder
- Albhy Galuten – Grammy-winning inventor and Intertrust Fellow
- Terry Hart – Association of American Publishers; US Copyright Office
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IPAS 2026 will start promptly after in-person registration at 9:00 AM ET. There will be networking and lunch breaks, and two breakout sessions, unavailable to livestream viewers but summarized by the facilitators at 1:00 ET and 5:00.
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