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Beauty Firms Should Draft AI Use Policies, Even If They Don’t Plan To Use AI – Attorney

 
• By Eileen Francis

Beauty and personal-care companies should draft an artificial intelligence use policy as soon as possible, regardless of their AI plans, given its ubiquity and the potential for employees to use it on their own, says Melanie Howard, partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP.

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All cosmetics and personal-care companies should establish an artificial intelligence use policy as soon as possible, even if the policy is “no AI.”

“I think AI is so ubiquitous at this point that if you don’t have a policy, you’re going to have individuals using AI on their own, according to their own judgment, and not really aligned with company values or decisions that the company has made,” said Melanie Howard, a partner in the Los Angeles office of

AI refers generally to a range of technologies that employ algorithms trained on data sets to create machine learning models capable of performing complex problem-solving tasks

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