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AI Procurement Risks: What UK Law Firms Must Demand from Vendors
UK law firms face significant regulatory risks in AI procurement. Understanding data flows, contractual safeguards, and vendor transparency is essential to meet professional obligations.
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One angle that seems worth separating out is the difference between accuracy risk and dependency risk. Even if a vendor’s outputs looked acceptable in testing, a firm could still be exposed if the contract says little about model changes, subcontractors, or what happens to matter data when the service ends. Compared with a basic software purchase, AI procurement may raise a bigger question about whether the firm can actually verify what changed after deployment and retrieve work product in a usable format if the relationship breaks down. The author mentions data flows and transparency; in practice, the harder issue may be ongoing auditability rather than the initial sales assurances. Which vendor promise would people here treat as the real red flag if it was missing from the contract?