5 ways to help Legal review your AI supplier contract

Getting an AI tool approved by Legal or your AI Governance team can often take some time. Until recently, those conversations were focused on managing privacy and information security questions but the debate has now evolved.

With regulation emerging fast and the EU AI Act leading the way, Legal teams now need context – not just contractual promises that “it’s safe”. They’ll want to understand:

• What the AI does – its specific use case and business purpose
• Where it gets its data – and who controls or owns that data
• How it learns – the methods, updates and human oversight involved
• Who owns the model – does the supplier build its own or rely on a thirdparty model?
• How the supplier checks for bias or inaccuracies – and how issues are corrected
• What documentation exists – testing records, audits, compliance summaries, and other evidence to prove it

This guidance helps you brief your Legal colleagues early and clearly, so you can move faster and avoid last-minute roadblocks.