A Lawyer's Advice For CIOs Creating AI-Use Policies
Search CIO, Friday, March 20th, 2026
AI is transforming the way companies work in unprecedented ways, and CIOs must implement policies to protect their intellectual property, as well as that of their customers and partners.
Chief information officers play a critical role in shaping how organizations experiment with, scale and deploy AI. With AI adoption advancing rapidly in the enterprise, CIOs are moving beyond the proof-of-concept era into a time when AI tools and workflows are making real impacts across organizations and ecosystems.
As a result, it's crucial that CIOs understand the risks associated with using AI and protect their intellectual property by creating and implementing AI-use policies. In this Q&A, Alex McGee - patent attorney and partner at Howard & Howard PLLC - speaks to TechTarget about how CIOs should approach this task.