Jason Stavely is a labor & employment partner at Quarles & Brady. He provides counsel to a wide range of companies on a variety of labor, employment and human resource matters. With experience at both the state and federal levels, Jason regularly defends employers in workplace-related litigation involving claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Meghan O'Connor is a Milwaukee-based health & life sciences partner at Quarles & Brady as well as the co-chair of the data privacy & cybersecurity team and the AI team. She provides counsel to a wide range of companies on matters including data privacy and cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, information governance, commercial contracting, and transactions. A significant portion of her work involves advising companies that manage health and other sensitive data.
Artificial intelligence is now embedded in day‑to‑day work across nearly every industry. Employees use AI tools to draft emails, summarize documents, generate code, analyze data and support decision‑making. As generative AI adoption accelerates, a predictable issue has emerged: When work product is flawed, late, biased or otherwise problematic, employees increasingly point to AI as the culprit.
For HR executives, this raises a critical governance and accountability question: Can an employee disclaim responsibility by blaming AI? The short answer is no, but the longer answer requires thoughtful policy, training and oversight. Employers that...
By Victor Ahiuma-Young The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has introduced stricter advertising rules for Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, warning operators against false claims, misleading ...