Every company is grappling with how to leverage AI to reach its organizational goals. The DOJ is no different. Perhaps learning from prior tech booms that have created a surge of criminality, the DOJ is making clear that it will be moving quickly to implement the technology to assist it in identifying crimes. What is notable for organizations that are looking to use AI for bona fide business goals, is that DOJ is also looking to hold those accountable that are using the technology…

Companies should review this important update to the ECCP to reassess not only their business use of AI, but the risks those technologies may present. The DOJ is urging companies to make sure that their compliance programs are keeping up-to-speed with the technology. AI may represent a different kind of risk than others a company may face, and thus, may present yet-unknown challenges, but that should be no deterrent to heeding the DOJ's call. As the Deputy Assistant Attorney General made…