The Legal Impact of AI in Investigations

Internal investigations is an aspect of the ethics and compliance function that faces considerable pressure, thanks to an increasing volume of misconduct reports worldwide. This only adds to the ongoing tension E&C teams face with ever-expanding remits and responsibilities without necessarily receiving additional resources with which to address them. Into that mix, AI is giving ethics and compliance teams an asymmetrical ability to cover a lot more ground than ever before. In few areas is this more visible than in misconduct investigations, where AI enables teams to process vast amounts of data with unprecedented speed, discover fact patterns that human operators might miss, and reduce the overall amount of time an investigation takes—from weeks to perhaps only days. These changes are not universal across all E&C programs, of course, but the degree to which AI is transforming investigations is something ethics and compliance teams cannot afford to ignore. In this episode, Maria Piontkovska, a partner with Baker McKenzie's Litigation & Government Enforcement group, discusses how AI is transforming misconduct investigations, both in how they’re being carried out, and how misconduct itself is being reported. Connect with Maria: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/people/p/piontkovska-maria Read Ethisphere's study, "The State of AI Adoption in Ethics & Compliance": https://ethisphere.com/resources/ai-data-report/ Follow Ethisphere on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/899505/admin/ Thanks for joining us! And until next time, remember: strong ethics is good business. Chapters (00:01:55) - Using of AI to speed up documentation review & early case assessment(00:05:04) - How people use AI to frame their misconduct reporting itself(00:08:10) - AI meeting transcription as investigations tool and consent risk(00:12:49) - Using AI to craft interview questions and analyze answers