Jonathan Blavin to Moderate AI Chatbot Panel at the 2026 Legal Frontiers in Digital Media Conference 

Munger, Tolles & Olson Partner Jonathan Blavin will join the Media Law Resource Center and UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology on May 14 at the 2026 Legal Frontiers in Digital Media Conference in San Francisco, California.

Jonathan will moderate a panel titled “Chatbots, Product Liability, and the First Amendment,” which will address recent lawsuits alleging that AI chatbot interactions have caused severe mental health issues, including self-harm among minors. Panelists will discuss whether AI outputs constitute “products” or “speech,” the appropriate legal standards for evaluating harm and whether AI-generated content is protected by the First Amendment. Jonathan will be joined by Professor Eugene Volokh, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution; Rebecca Ruiz, Senior Reporter at Mashable; Mackenzie D. Austin, Esq.; and Tori Noble, Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

This year’s conference will examine AI chatbot product liability and counseling, as well as child-safety regulations worldwide, including age-gating and social media restrictions. Attendees will also receive updates on the Supreme Court’s Cox v. Sony Music decision and intermediary liability matters in the EU.

Learn more about the 2026 Legal Frontiers in Digital Media Conference.