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"The Rise of AI: A Tool or a Threat?"
Open Submissions: October 1st – November 20th
The Law Library wants to know what the teens think about the rise of artificial intelligence. AI has been at the forefront of the media in recent years with tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini becoming increasingly popular among students for their research assists and writing tools. AI has undoubtably altered many aspects of our daily life, and the law is rushing to catch up.
The Law Library wants to hear from students about their thoughts on the rise of AI. What is one way you use AI? Is AI a new tool to utilize or something to be cautious of?
Below are a couple of writing prompts to explore the intersectionality between AI and the law. (These are general ideas, feel free to pick your own topic!)
- AI and Plagiarism: where is the line drawn between using AI as a learning tool versus letting it write your entire essay? If you were to write a law allowing the use of ai in educational research capacity, what would it look like?
- Who owns AI-generated art? If an AI generator is used to compose a work of art or song, who owns the copyright? The human? Software creator?
- Training Data: Is it an infringement of copyright law when AI companies use books, magazines, articles to train their AI models?
Share your thoughts with the Riverside community!
About the RCLL Teen Legal Zine
Riverside County Law Library is beginning a quarterly online Teen Legal Zine in 2026. The goal for our Zine is to provide a space for teens to share their opinions and commentary on different discussion topics in the legal field. We want to know how these issues affect you, what you believe could be done, or open new discussions you believe are important. From Fast Fashion to the Rule of Law and the American Dream, we want to know your perspectives!
Types of submissions we are looking for:
- Scholarly Essays
- Personal Essays
- Collages
- Illustrations
- Mini Comics
We are interested in zine pages that explore the intersectionality between our themes and the legal world. Conduct research into the topic and share your findings with us. How does the topic impact your community? How have you been personally impacted by this issue? What is something you wish to get across to the public that you believe is important?
Each issue will have a different theme, posted to our website. Submissions and questions will be accepted through our Temecula Branch email ([email protected]) using the subject line, "Teen Legal Zine Submission – [Student Name]" along with a completed 2026 Teen Legal Zine Submission Form (Word Document). Our editors will strive to get back to you as soon as possible. Once we have gone through all the submissions, we will publish our completed Zine on the Riverside County Law Library Teen Legal Zine webpage.
Please carefully read the submission guidelines linked above and happy writing!
