Privilege & AI: Pitfalls and Tips for Legal Protection

As generative AI tools are increasingly used in the context of legal advice, important questions arise around the availability of legal privilege. For example, in what circumstances (if any) can AI-generated legal advice be privileged? Is privilege lost when legal advice is uploaded to AI tools? How does the use of AI tools to summarise documents impact their privilege status?

We tackle these thorny questions in our recent webinar involving:

• Colin Passmore (author of Passmore on Privilege)
• Minesh Tanna (Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons)
• Peter Lee (AI Governance Lead, Simmons & Simmons)
• Frances Gourdie (Simmons & Simmons)

Following a recap on the rules around legal advice privilege, we look at:

• scenarios in which tricky AI privilege points arise
• Practical guidance on how to navigate these points
• The wider importance of AI governance to manage these risks

After the 30-minute webinar, there was a Q&A session.

More information is revealed about our ‘Guide to Privilege and AI’.