Security News > 2024 > January > Legal, compliance and privacy leaders anxious about rapid GenAI adoption

Rapid GenAI adoption is the top-ranked issue for the next two years for legal, compliance and privacy leaders, according to Gartner.

"Legal leaders should adapt preexisting, well-established and widely distributed risk monitoring and management practices until new processes can be implemented. For example, they might modify data inventories and records of processing activities of privacy impact assessments to track GenAI usage."

"Legal leaders need to institute a mandatory human review of GenAI output, prohibit entering enterprise IP or personal information into public tools such as ChatGPT, and develop policies that require clear indication of GenAI provenance on any public-facing output," said Strome.

Legal leaders need to clearly document roles and responsibilities for approvals, policy management, risk management and training for GenAI. "Legal leaders should advocate for establishing a cross-functional steering committee, or for modifying the mandate of an existing committee, to establish principles and standards for use, and to align on roles and responsibilities related to AI governance," said Strome.

While GenAI tools have the potential to assist with time-consuming, repetitive tasks such as conducting legal research, drafting contracts, and producing summaries of legislation its output often includes errors, legal leaders must ensure the output is reviewed for accuracy.

"Given GenAI's ease of use and flexibility of application for enterprises, it's no surprise that rapid GenAI adoption is the most referenced risk for legal leaders this year legal leaders should not simply react by instituting draconian policies that restrict its use," said Strome.

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