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Artificial Intelligence promises an exciting future and tremendous growth, provided that legal professionals able to navigate their business in this novel environment. In-house AI specialist Julien Willeme offers some step-by-step strategies to overcome the barriers

Many companies make massive investments in artificial intelligence (AI), and more and more AI products and technologies are being launched by companies that are not traditional software companies. This signals a transition where traditional engineering companies invest in software capabilities and position AI as a critical way to disrupt their markets and gain market share.

That transition does not come without challenges for legal teams. Lawyers need to keep abreast of new and fast-evolving technologies and familiarise themselves with novel technical concepts like “machine learning” or “black box AI”. The integration of AI in a company’s products also entails a new business strategy and new monetisation models, which lawyers need to understand and help shape.

Even in practice areas that lawyers have been working in for a long time, AI is a whole new ball game. Take privacy. AI training, testing and validation necessitate access to a massive amount of data. Even as an AI product functions, it processes massive amounts of data, which raises novel privacy issue.

Policymakers in Europe, Asia, the US and Canada have diverse points of view, and are trying to learn and understand the best way to regulate AI. The reality is, however, that no one has really cracked it yet.

When it comes to particular sectors, each regulator also pays close attention to AI applications and the necessity to regulate the technology. That brings in a whole new level of complexity.

Roadmap for legal teams

Julien Willeme

At a tech talk he gave on 22 July at the Tech Law Fest in Singapore, Julien Willeme proposed a strategic roadmap to equip legal teams with the necessary skills to manoeuvre that complexity and position themselves as true AI business transformation enablers. The roadmap has three components: culture, thought leadership, and engagement.

Julien shared his experience in fostering an “AI-proof” culture in legal teams and how to leverage that culture to develop the necessary new skills and position your teams as true thought leaders in the AI space, internally within your organisation, as well as externally when they engage with industry peers, regulators and policy makers.

That thought leadership will prove invaluable, since regulators and policy makers are trying to learn the technology and are willing to engage with companies, educational institutions and a broad range of stakeholders to understand how to best tackle the novel policy questions raised by AI.

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