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If your company is using AI without a policy, you are already behind
A year ago, AI policies were optional.
Today, they are quickly becoming expected.
AI Policies Are Becoming a Legal Requirement, Not a Nice-to-Have
Articles Posted in Artificial Intelligence
5 Legal Mistakes Companies Are Making With AI Right Now (And How to Fix Them Before It Costs You)
If your business is using AI, you are already taking on legal risk
Most companies do not realize this yet.
They think AI is:
Companies Are Quietly Rolling Out AI Without Legal Review. Here’s the Risk No One Is Talking About
AI adoption is not happening at the top. It is happening in the shadows.
Most executives think AI adoption is a strategic decision.
It is not.
AI and Contracts: What to Fix Before It Costs You
Most contracts were not built for AI. That is the problem.
Right now, companies are layering AI into their business:
•drafting contracts with ChatGPT
Your Employees Are Using AI More Than You Think. Here’s the Legal Risk That Comes With It
You do not have an AI adoption problem. You have a visibility problem.
Most business owners assume AI adoption is controlled.
It is not.
Your AI Chats Are Not Privileged: What Businesses Need to Know Before It’s Too Late
The uncomfortable truth: your AI conversations may be evidence
If you are using AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Google Gemini to ask legal questions, draft contracts, or think through business decisions, you need to understand one thing:
Those conversations are likely not protected by attorney-client privilege.
The First Sanctions for AI Misuse in Court Are a Warning of What Comes Next
Artificial intelligence is entering litigation faster than courts can formally regulate it. Judges are not responding with panic. They are responding with discipline.
The first sanctions issued for AI misuse in legal filings reveal how courts are approaching this new reality. The issue is not the technology itself. The issue is responsibility.
Courts are drawing a clear line between AI used as a legal tool and AI used as a substitute for legal judgment.
When AI-Generated Evidence Enters the Courtroom: A New Legal Risk for Businesses and Litigators
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how information is created. Now it is beginning to change how evidence appears in court.
Emails that were never written. Audio recordings that were never spoken. Reports that resemble expert analysis but were produced by a machine.
Courts across the United States are confronting a challenge they were never designed to solve. Evidence that looks authentic, sounds credible, and may never have existed in the real world.
Using AI to Create Content? Watch Out for Copyright Violations
AI & Content Creation
Businesses using generative AI programs like ChatGPT to create any content—whether for blogs, websites or other marketing materials, and whether text, visuals, sound or video—need to ensure that they’re not inadvertently using copyrighted materials in the process.
Clearly, the times they are a changing….and businesses need to adapt to the changes. Employers should promulgate messages to their employees and contractors updating their policy manuals to ensure that communications professionals and others crafting content are aware of the risks of using AI-generated materials, which go beyond the possibility that they are “hallucinated” rather than factual—although that’s worth considering, too.
Using Generative AI in Business? Make Sure to Keep Your Secrets
Using Generative AI? Keep Your Secrets
Businesses are finding generative AI programs like ChatGPT useful in functions from financial services to human resources. Although still in its early stages, and far from entirely reliable, the technology is evolving quickly and its tools and practices will continue to develop. The Cisco 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark study found that 79% of businesses say they’re deriving measurable value from generative AI for everything from creating documents to coding.
But this use of generative AI has led to a number of cautions, mostly commonly and loudly about the accuracy of the information that apps like ChatGPT generate—including their tendency to “hallucinate” assertions when they don’t actually have answers.