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ARTICLE · 13 JUNE 2025

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Key Client Briefing: Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Internal Investigations

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Internal investigations are an essential tool for uncovering potential misconduct in companies, averting damage and initiating the necessary measures.

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Daniel Dohrn
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Internal investigations are an essential tool for uncovering potential misconduct in companies, averting damage and initiating the necessary measures. With increasing digitisation and the exponential growth in the volume of data, digital e-discovery tools have become an integral part of any internal investigation. Providers of such tools promise not only increased efficiency through the use of artificial intelligence ("AI"), but also deeper insights and more precise results. At the same time, the use of AI in internal investigations brings with it new challenges and legal issues under European Regulation 2024/1689 of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence ("AI Act"). The AI Act addresses not only the developers of AI systems but also their users. Companies that use AI-based e-discovery tools are therefore subject to the requirements of the AI Act and face the high risk of fines of up to EUR 35 million or 7% of their total global annual

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