The Unwritten Rules of AI Governance for Legal & Compliance Teams
When AI starts acting, who is responsible for it?
THE SUPREME COURT HAD TO DEAL WITH A LEGAL CASE THAT AI HAD MADE UP.
A team of lawyers had relied on AI-generated case law that did not exist, including a fictional judgment called “Mercy vs Mankind.” The Supreme Court has since flagged the growing problem of lawyers relying on AI-generated, non-existent judgments.
That was AI assisting a lawyer.
Now consider what happens when AI moves beyond assistance.
An AI agent triggers a workflow.
AI communicates with a customer.
AI takes an action without someone approving every step.
Who is responsible then?
That is where AI governance gets much harder for Legal and Compliance.
The questions we will tackle
Who owns an AI decision?
When Business, IT, Legal, Compliance and an external vendor are all involved, who is accountable when something goes wrong?
What actually counts as human oversight?
If someone reviews an AI recommendation and clicks “Approve,” is that meaningful oversight? What should a human be able to understand, challenge or override?
Where does AI governance begin?
Employee use of AI. AI embedded in software. Third-party models. Autonomous agents. Where does the organization's responsibility start and stop?
When does an AI policy become a control?
Who approves an AI use case? Who monitors it? What happens when the system, data or use case changes?
Can you prove what happened?
If an AI-related incident reaches Legal, Audit, a regulator or the board six months later, can you reconstruct what the AI did, what data it used, who approved it and what happened next?
Real cases & questions.
We'll use real cases and emerging AI developments to make these questions concrete, including AI-generated legal research, AI-generated customer communications, claims about AI capabilities, and the emerging question of liability when AI agents act autonomously.
The goal is to think through what Legal and Compliance teams should be asking now, while AI is already making its way into everyday business processes.
General Counsels | Legal Heads | Compliance Leaders | Risk Leaders | Senior In-house Legal & Compliance Teams
30-minute discussion + 15-minute Q&A
Come with the AI governance question your organization has not answered yet.
Reserve your seat.