Every AI tool your team touches is, by default, a potential data pipeline back to the vendor. Sometimes that data trains the next model. Sometimes it doesn't. The gap between those two outcomes is usually a setting nobody checked, a contract clause nobody read, or a habit nobody thought to flag as a habit. Let’s dive in to how you should assess the gaps.

Useful, supervised, and never making decisions on its own.

If you use AI in your creative process, start building a record of how you work. Now.

I am not Catholic, but when Pope Leo XIV published a Latin-named encyclical on AI the same week I launched my Latin-named AI law practice, I had some thoughts. On why technology is never neutral, why judgment beats the tool, and why AI slop has a price.

Regulus Law is a privacy, AI governance, tech transactions, and business formation practice. It's also a fractional general counsel practice for companies that need serious legal thinking without the overhead of a full-time hire. I use AI like a junior associate for drafting, research, and organization, with human judgment applied to everything that leaves my desk.