AI Regulation

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AI regulation

Commercial considerations checklist for procuring AI

Many companies will be considering the use of AI to streamline their businesses. Before procuring an AI-powered solution from a provider, there are certain issues which a business should consider. Our commercial considerations checklist from our AI guide outlines six key steps.

1.    Create and comply with company AI use policies
2.   Define your strategy and budget
3.   Scope your requirements
4.   Upskill your teams
5.   Choose a provider
6.   Consider key contract issues

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AI regulation

RPC AI Guide – AI regulation series

RPC's AI Guide is a user-friendly overview of some of the key legal implications of artificial intelligence, and the related issues that businesses will need to address when considering using AI. In our recent series of articles, we explore the past and possible future of AI regulation, including:

UK AI regulation
AI regulation in the EU
AI regulation in the US
AI regulation globally
practical considerations.

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Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service (AIaaS)

Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service (AIaaS), refers to cloud-based tools which allow businesses to access AI models hosted by a third party provider. In our recent article, we look at the most common types of AIaaS, its benefits, and also consider some of the contracting issues which may arise when procuring off-the-shelf AI tools, in relation to pricing, usage obligations, service performance, liability, pricing, regulatory compliance and security.

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Generative AI – addressing copyright

When it comes to the interaction of AI and IP rights a lot of attention has been focused on copyright issues. There are three main potentially thorny issues and all have been extensively covered by the mainstream media.
As a quick recap, the issues are whether:

the way foundation models (FM) are trained using works from the internet infringes the copyright in the works of content creators such as authors, artists and software developers
the outputs of FM infringe the copyright of content creators
AI generated works are protectable.

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