Tiffany deGruy Quoted in Business Alabama on AI Adoption

Bradley attorney Tiffany deGruy was quoted in Business Alabama discussing how AI is already affecting every part of a business. She says leaders need to understand AI, establish guardrails early, and keep humans involved in important decisions.

According to deGruy, AI is a leadership issue, not something to delegate.

“AI is going to touch every corner of your business, and your entire leadership team needs to be willing to engage with it — not just delegate it,” deGruy said.

Shadow AI is already proving to be a problem: “Employees use AI tools without organizational oversight, often before companies have established appropriate guardrails around their use.”

“Over the last several years, I’ve made AI a central focus of my practice because the legal questions surrounding these tools are no longer theoretical — they’re showing up in boardrooms, contracts, regulatory inquiries and litigation,” deGruy explained.

She warns that AI can be “confidently incorrect.” Companies therefore need transparent discussions and processes for verifying AI-generated information.

“AI remains a tool, not a substitute for human judgment,” deGruy said.

DeGruy identifies the greatest business threat as “moving faster than you can govern.”

She also warns against concentrating AI responsibility in one place. “Don’t outsource your AI literacy to a single employee or department,” she said.

Good governance enables AI adoption. DeGruy says successful companies will be those “putting the right guardrails in place early so they can capture AI’s benefits without creating unnecessary risk.”

AI adoption needs to be matched by leadership involvement, employee education, clear policies, data safeguards, verification procedures and human oversight. The goal is to move quickly enough to capture AI’s benefits but not so quickly that governance falls behind.

The full article, “The AI Reckoning: Companies That Skip Legal Guardrails Now Are Taking a Gamble,” was published by Business Alabama on August 12, 2026.