General Counsel’s Job Changing as More Companies Adopt AI

The general counsel’s role is evolving to include more conversations around policy and business direction, as more companies deploy artificial intelligence, panelists at a University of California Berkeley conference said Thursday.

“We are not just lawyers anymore. We are driving a lot of the policy conversations, the business conversations, because of the geopolitical issues going on and because of the regulatory, or lack thereof, framework for products and services,” said Lauren Lennon, general counsel at Scale AI, a company that uses data to train AI systems.

Scattered regulation and fraying international alliances are also redefining the general counsel’s job, panelists ...