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More newsChatting 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?
A practical guide to AI governance for businesses
Artificial intelligence (AI) is compressing decision cycles across every professional workflow. In some instances, businesses are deploying AI agents: systems capable of executing tasks and making decisions autonomously, without direct human intervention. This acceleration has consequences for how human judgement is exercised, how accountability operates and how risk accumulates.
GenAI, gender and employment equity
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) adoption transforms industries globally, South African businesses face a particular challenge: women are significantly less likely than men to adopt these tools. For designated employers, this disparity may constitute an employment barrier that adversely affects designated groups – an issue they are legally required to identify and address under the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (EEA). This tension between technological disruption and transformation objectives demands attention.