AI Notetaking In The Legal And Business Context: Does It Risk Confidentiality Or Privilege?

As businesses modernize, many are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to increase productivity and lower costs. One such tool is AI notetaking—automated meeting transcriptions, real-time summaries and searchable records.

These tools have the potential to offer greater efficiency, consistency and integration with enterprise workflows. But for in-house counsel, they also raise legal and ethical considerations—particularly around confidentiality and privilege. The reason for this is that AI notetaking tools may store processed content on external servers (i.e., the cloud), and may be used to further train the AI tool and potentially become available to third parties.

In-house teams way wish to consider the following before deploying these tools across the business or within the legal function.