AIG 110 · For procurement, legal, IT and business owners
AI Governance: Buying AI tools and services
What you are buying when you buy AI, the questions to ask a vendor, your data in the contract, a vendor that changes the model, when your organization becomes the provider, checking a tool after you buy it, and leaving one.
8 lessons · about 39 min · quiz · certificate
Course outline
Lessons
- 1What you are buying when you buy AIHow vendors bring AI into your organization · The chain of companies behind an AI tool · The duties your organization keeps when it buys4:36
- 2Questions to ask an AI vendorMatching your use to the vendor's stated purpose · Which model the tool runs on and who provides it · What developers disclose and the code they sign · Documents that come with a high-risk system · Reading standards, certificates and model clauses5:58
- 3Your data in the contractWhat the GDPR requires in a vendor contract · Whether your data may train the vendor's models · How long the vendor keeps prompts and outputs · Business data, transfers and impact assessments5:51
- 4When the vendor changes the modelHow vendors give notice before retiring a model · When changes around a model worsen results · Keeping your own tests for every model change · Model changes under the AI Act's high-risk rules5:15
- 5When your organization becomes the providerHow your organization can become the provider · The provider's duties and the limits of a contract · What the original provider must hand over to you · Building a high-risk system on a vendor's model5:53
- 6Checking a tool after you buy itReading the vendor's notices of changed terms · Tracking the companies behind your vendor · Rechecking a tool and its terms on a schedule · Monitoring a high-risk system under the contract4:37
- 7Leaving a toolWhen a vendor ends the product you built on · Your right to switch providers under the Data Act · Getting your data back and having it deleted · What to take with you before you leave a tool5:16
- 8The habits of a buyer who owns an AI contract1:21
- Final quizOpens when every lesson is done.
- CertificateA dated record of completion, issued when you pass the quiz.