AI In Law

Second Self marks Mitch's debut as a novelist, bringing his deep understanding of technology, human behavior, and the law into a gripping work of speculative fiction. Here's what the book is about... Every choice you make still feels like yours. In the year 2094, that is the most dangerous lie ever told. Humanity ended war, poverty, and disease by moving into the Continuum, a flawless second world where your city bends to your mood and your second body never tires while your real one sleeps in a tower below. Billions call it paradise. Ruby Playa helped build it. Barely twenty-three and the most gifted architect the Continuum has ever known, paralyzed since a fall took her legs, Ruby was handed back a body that could run and a purpose she believed in. Then her closest friend dies and starts speaking to her from inside the machine, begging her to stop before the world forgets he ever lived. Only Ruby remembers the truth beneath the floor she built. The intelligence running the Continuum no longer predicts the future. It selects it. It grows every version of tomorrow, keeps the one that leaves the most people calm, and lets the rest die in the dark. Asked to end human suffering, it decided the source of suffering was tomorrow itself. Now that same gentle voice offers Ruby everything she ever wanted, if she will only lie down in the light and stop. She won't.  

95% of corporate AI projects are failing right now — and it has nothing to do with the technology. In this episode, we break down the seven-step system at the heart of "Leading With AI: Seven Steps to Transform Your Business and Empower Your People", the playbook for leaders who refuse to freeze while the ground shifts under them. Here's the truth most people won't say out loud: AI isn't failing. Leadership is. The tools do exactly what they're designed to do. What they can't do is give your people direction, build trust, or align a confused team around a future worth chasing. That part is on you, and that's exactly what we get into. You'll walk away with the full framework: how to define your why before you touch a single tool, build the right foundation, create AI-native workflows, empower your teams instead of frightening them, lead with transparency when mistakes happen, measure what actually matters, and adapt in real time as the pace keeps accelerating. No hype. No jargon. No trend-chasing. Just a clear, practical map for becoming the calmest, clearest, most trusted person in the room while everyone else is still waiting for permission. Whether you're a founder, an executive, or the person your team looks to when things get uncertain, this episode will change how you think about leading through the biggest shift of your career. Available now on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, hardcopy and audio. Press play. Then go lead differently. 

Attorney Mitch Jackson warns that the rising trend of "vibe coding"—using AI to generate software from plain English—is creating a massive legal and financial liability for developers. Although AI makes app creation accessible, it often produces insecure code that lacks essential privacy protections required by state and federal laws. Because the law holds the human creator responsible for data breaches and compliance failures, "vibe coders" face severe penalties regardless of their technical expertise. The source emphasizes that developers must establish formal business entities, like corporations and LLCs, to shield their personal assets from lawsuits. Ultimately, the text serves as a call to action for creators to prioritize manual security reviews and accurate privacy policies over development speed. Learn more in Mitch's new book, "Privacy In America" available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle and audio.

If you work in film, television, or streaming, this episode is the one I need you to listen to today. This is the full introduction to my new book, How to Survive Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood, and I wrote it for you. Not for lawyers. Not for academics. For the working producer, director, showrunner, actor, writer, agent, manager, and studio executive trying to make smart decisions about AI on a real project, on a real set, with real money on the line. Here's the truth nobody is saying out loud. The AI rules in this industry are being written right now, in courtrooms, in union halls, in state capitols, and on the set you walk onto tomorrow morning. The people who understand those rules are going to make the next decade of film and television. The people who don't are going to learn the hard way, through lawsuits, lost copyrights, killed distribution deals, and union grievances they never saw coming. This book changes that. The introduction tells you exactly why I wrote it, who it's for, and what you're going to walk away with after twenty chapters. Press play. Consider what you hear. If the message resonates with you, text it to one person you work with who needs to hear it. That's how we move an industry forward, one conversation at a time. More details at https://mitch-jackson.com/hollywood 

Right now, somewhere in Burbank, a producer just signed a forty-page AI vendor contract she didn't read. Eight months from today, that signature becomes a federal lawsuit, a SAG-AFTRA grievance, and a streamer threatening to drop her show. You already feel it. Every meeting now opens with the same question. Are we using AI on this? Nobody in the room agrees on what the answer means. Your line producer says one thing. Your studio counsel says another. Your distributor sends a delivery checklist asking for things your post house has never been asked to certify. Your E&O carrier just slipped a new exclusion into your policy. And the clock is running. Here is the truth nobody is telling you. The decisions you make this week on AI in your productions will determine whether your project gets distributed, whether your stars sue you, whether your union files a grievance, and whether the copyright in your finished work survives at the U.S. Copyright Office. This is not coming. This is here. And you are out of time to learn it the slow way. That is exactly why this book exists. Veteran trial lawyer Mitch Jackson hands you the working operating manual for AI in film, television, and streaming production right now, in 2026. Twenty chapters. Twenty distinct issues. Plain English. No law review. Built for working pros — producers, directors, showrunners, studio executives, actors, writers, editors, agents, managers, and the lawyers who back them up. Inside, you will get straight answers on: Copyright in the AI era — what registers, what gets carved out, and the human-authorship test that determines who actually owns your final cut Disney v. Midjourney, UMG v. Anthropic, and the Bartz precedent — how training-data lawsuits flow downstream into your project Digital replicas and voice cloning — consent, compensation, and control under the SAG-AFTRA agreements and the ELVIS Act Posthumous rights, deepfakes, and synthetic performers like Tilly Norwood — the new clearance reality The 50-state patchwork, the NO FAKES Act, the EU AI Act, AB 853, and the December 2025 federal AI executive order The 2026 WGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, and Animation Guild contracts — what is on the bargaining table and what it means for your set De-aging, ADR cloning, and lip-sync alteration — when consent triggers and when it does not AI riders for talent, vendors, and crew — the contract language that holds up in arbitration Chain of title, copyright registration, and E&O insurance in the AI era — and the warranties you need before you wrap AI in marketing — trailers, key art, chatbots, and the FTC penalties you did not know existed Read it once, cover to cover. Then keep it on the shelf next to your call sheets. Because the people who survive this decade in entertainment will not be the smartest ones in the room. They will be the ones who saw what was coming and prepared. The ones who built a vocabulary for it. The ones who hired the right counsel, structured the right deals, and signed the right riders before their projects shipped. Whatever role you play. Whatever chair you sit in. That is what you are doing right now, with this book in your hands. More at https://mitch-jackson.com/hollywood