Corporate AI Policy

Nishimura & Asahi has established the following guidelines for the use of AI, in order to outline proper use restrictions, and ensure proper implementation of AI use.

• Confidentiality and protection of sensitive information
  Information, including confidential information and information related to litigation, will be used only in secure, authorized AI systems vetted by the firm. Where censorship or redaction is required, it will be performed appropriately.
• Human accountability and oversight
  All lawyers and staff have complete responsibility and take full accountability, for review of documents generated using or with support from AI, including contracts and legal documents.
• Clear scope of and prohibitions on use
  Broadly speaking, the use of AI is limited to searches of publicly available information such as laws and regulations, summaries, and drafts. AI generated materials are not used directly to develop materials containing legal advice or litigation strategy. No confidential information will be used as input for AI systems that use machine learning.
• Prevention of copyright infringement and third-party rights
  We take great care to ensure that documents and images generated by AI do not pose a risk of copyright infringement.
• Distinction from legal advice
  AI output will be used solely for reference purposes and will not be used as “legal advice.”
• Opt-out
  Clients have the option to opt-out of AI use.

Terms of Use

Nishimura & Asahi is taking all necessary measures to ensure compliance, integrity, confidentiality, and transparency, and to use AI technologies responsibly. Our firm will take all necessary measures to avoid risks of misuse of AI-generated information. This includes ethical and legal risks associated with AI (generative AI and artificial intelligence), as well as information leaks, falsification, destruction, inappropriate learning and output.

Basic Principles

In addition to the Terms of Use, Nishimura & Asahi will use AI based on the following principles:

• Ethics & transparency
  We only use AI with high reliability and proven results.
• Privacy & data protection
  We comply with various legal and regulatory requirements related to AI and data protection (e.g., the new AI law, the Personal Information Protection Law, GDPR, EU AI Act, etc.).
• Fairness and non-discrimination
  We understand that harmful biases can undermine equality and fairness, and we will maintain anti-discrimination practices through training and review.
• Human supervision
  AI is always operated with human supervision, and the results produced by AI are used only after being fact checked and reviewed by humans.