Glossary term
Glossary term
Governance and Compliance
Contractual clauses used to manage AI-related obligations, such as data use restrictions, audit rights, security requirements, model changes, incident notification, subcontractors, IP, deletion, and regulatory cooperation. Contracts should be aligned with the AI risk tier; high-risk systems need stronger notification, testing, transparency, audit, data deletion, and change-management rights.
The European Commission and SIG Generative AI Working Group published Model Contractual Clauses for the procurement of AI by public organisations in 2023.
Microsoft's Customer Copyright Commitment for Copilot is a contractual control offering indemnification for IP claims from generated content.
OpenAI's Enterprise terms include contractual commitments not to train on customer data, addressing a common AI procurement requirement.