THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Potential and peril: How leading General Counsel see AI
Governing AI
Enabling AI: the role of General Counsel
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly advances, General Counsel (GC) are working to establish legal and ethical frameworks for its more widespread use. Is AI just another technology? Or is a new governance approach required as organisations seek to embrace AI’s benefits while minimising related risks?
The Ashurst Leadership Centre (ALC) recently convened a roundtable in Melbourne to address these important questions, attended by GC and other leaders from major Australian and international companies. It was guided by Ashurst partner Sonia Haque-Vatcher and guest speaker Clayton Noble, the Head of Legal at Microsoft ANZ.
This paper captures the discussion and provides further insights to assist legal teams as they consider augmenting their professional roles and organisational strategies.
Key insights
- The diverse applications of AI solutions offers opportunities to transform business processes
- GC have a central role to play in aligning organisational values and ethics, and regulatory and legal requirements.
- Policies and governance processes that organisations have developed to manage risks like privacy and compliance and information security could be adapted to ensuring the safe and responsible use of AI systems
