Fittingly for a leading tech lawyer, it was a LinkedIn connection that landed Emma Redmond a job in OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT. “The stars aligned,” she tells me when we meet at the firm’s city centre office in Dublin. “I happened to be connected with Che [Chang], who’s currently our general counsel, and we just started messaging.” Soon messaging turned into a conversation. “I love how these things kind of organically happen,” she says.  It was early 2023 and the world was only beginning to get its head around generative AI, a transformative wave of frontier technology…

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