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Intellectual property belongs to the company.
During the course of your employment, you may be involved in the creation, development or invention of intellectual property such as concepts, methods, processes, inventions, confidential information and trade secrets, know-how, physical products, ideas, plans, programs, software, applications, code, works of authorship, trademarks, service marks and designs, alone or jointly with others, including but not limited to the improvement of existing intellectual property belonging to the company. All such intellectual property and the rights therein shall be owned by the company and your moral rights to such intellectual property, if any, will be waived. You are responsible for cooperating with the company and providing all necessary assistance, including the preparation and execution of any necessary documentation such as assignments and applications to register rights before relevant government authorities on behalf of the company, to ensure that all intellectual property and related rights become or are recognized as the exclusive property of the company.
The documents of the company must be preserved.
It is critical that you help preserve our business records, follow the guidelines set forth in any document retention policies and comply with related legal and regulatory requirements. If you are notified that your documents are relevant to an anticipated or pending litigation, investigation or audit, you must follow the guidance set forth in the notification you receive from legal counsel regarding retention of documents.
Ensure Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools are used appropriately.
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, Ernie, and other products with pre-trained language models are powerful tools that can benefit our business if used appropriately. The use of these tools, however, can present significant risks relating to the protection of confidential information and the reliability of AI generated outputs.
Any information inputted into a generative AI tool becomes incorporated into the model. This creates the potential for inputs to be owned by the product provider and for such inputs to be shared with other users outside the organization. Additionally, a generative AI tool is limited by the data available for its training. Such data may be incomplete or out of date, which can result in the model providing inaccurate or unreliable information.
Other than as set out below, confidential, non-public, personal or proprietary information should not be shared with generative AI tools. This includes information relating to:
| • | | Brookfield, including our clients, vendors, investors, counterparties or investee companies, and |
| • | | Information protected by trademark or copyright. |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, confidential, non-public, private and/or proprietary information can be shared with generative AI tools that have been explicitly approved and made available for confidential internal use through Brookfield’s internal Technology Services Group, subject to such guidelines and/or policies as may be prescribed.
Additionally, any output from a generative AI tool, including a version of an AI tool that has been approved for confidential internal use by the Technology Services Group, should be carefully reviewed and evaluated for its quality and accuracy. Brookfield and its employees remain responsible for the quality and accuracy of their work, including any judgments or decision making.
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