Somewhere in your organisation, an employee is using AI right now. They may be drafting emails with it, summarising documents, screening CVs, or feeding client data into a tool whose privacy settings nobody has checked. Most businesses have reached this point without a policy, without training, and without any clear picture of what that exposure looks like. That gap, between where your people already are and where your governance framework is not, is where liability accumulates. It is also where employment tribunals and regulators are increasingly looking.
For businesses that want the productivity benefits without the legal risk, the time for a watching brief has passed.
What AI use in the workplace actually looks like