21 April 2026
Article
Chatting away your protection – Are you waiving legal privilege when you use AI?
Generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot, to name a few, have
become a routine feature of modern business operations. Today’s executives and employees
increasingly use these tools to summarise documents, brainstorm strategies, draft correspondence,
analyse risks and mitigate exposure. Yet the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) raises
an urgent and largely unresolved question for South African clients: can the use of AI tools
compromise the legal privilege that protects confidential communications with lawyers?
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