Key Considerations When Adopting AI

In this short video, Tim gives his take on what legal teams should consider when adopting AI at their organization.

Question: What should legal teams consider when adopting AI at their organization?

Answer: The first thing to to think about is, why are you adopting AI? And, what parts of the organization are actually adopting AI and incorporating that into their work? If it's developers who are using it to help write code, and then you're out deploying that code, you have IP issues that you're going to want to figure out. And that depends on the AI you're using, who's providing it, and things like that.

You also want to look at different types of compliance issues. So, are there particular policies you may want to put in place for how people within your organization are going to use AI? For example, is your marketing team using it to create content and then turning around and putting that out? Is that something that you want for your organization?

There are a lot of fact-specific things that you need to look at. But the best and first place to start is to identify why you're using the AI and what the actual output will be. If you're just using it to proofread emails and things like that, which I understand a lot of people do now, it's probably not a huge deal. As opposed to like, we're going to use it to help us write code. Like, they're two very different situations that have different levels of scrutiny and different considerations.

So, start with how and why you're using it. Then from there, think about the downstream effects.

Question: What should legal teams consider when they're adopting AI for their own team?

Answer: So, I would think about it in terms of, particularly generative AI, being a tool to go from zero to one. So you're not just staring at a blank page. I'm not sure that, personally, I would be comfortable with people using AI to draft language, and fully trusting that it's going to be correct.

But it's like, AI, draft me a paragraph on XYZ for this contract. Then it gives you a paragraph. You read through it. You edit it from there and customize it. That's a valuable way not to have the writer's block of a blank page. So I think there's that.

The other side is, you know, there have been in the news, cases where people have used AI to draft pleadings and things in front of the court. If you're gonna do that, just check your case sites. I mean, just experimenting around with it a little bit. I've asked ChatGPT, tell me about the legality of daily fantasy sports. And it has since changed. Like, if you ask direct legal questions on ChatGPT, it'll say, go talk to a lawyer. But initially, it actually brought up a case from a Massachusetts state case, and the site was not real. It didn't exist. Which was crazy. So, yeah, if you're going to use it for that kind of stuff, please check your sites.