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Establish content lifecycle
ownership. AI does not create the
problem of orphaned content, but
it amplifies the consequences.
Firms need clear accountability
for content at every stage of its
lifecycle -- creation, use, reten-
tion, and disposition. Without
that accountability, repositories
degrade continuously, and the AI
tools that depend on them degrade
with them.
These are information governance
fundamentals. But they are the
preconditions that make AI gov-
ernance possible. You cannot build
an AI access policy on content you
have not inventoried. You cannot
tune AI results against content
you have not classified. You
cannot control AI costs against
content you have not subjected to
retention.
THE STRATEGIC SHIFT
The firms that will lead the next phase of legal AI are not the ones deploying
the most tools. They are the ones whose content foundations can sustain
those tools over time.
This requires a shift in how CIOs and firm leadership think about the rela-
tionship between AI and information governance. AI is not a standalone in-
itiative. It is a capability that sits on top of a content layer, and the maturity
of that content layer determines the ceiling of what AI can deliver. Investing
in AI without investing in the content it depends on is like investing in a
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