In the first episode in our mini-series on AI Governance, Vik Khurana and Simon McDougall set out how organisations can kick off their programme, starting with the important work of identifying and assessing the use of AI, risk framework maturity, roles and responsibilities and high level risk and regulatory exposure. Send us a text Thanks for listening! If you have any feedback, questions or comments, please email us at theroadmap@bristows.com Find all the episodes as we release them h...

In this episode, Vik Khurana and Simon McDougall (Bristows Senior Adviser and Chief Strategist for AI at ZoomInfo) discuss the emerging discipline of AI governance and risk management. In particular they offer practical tips to those starting out in AI governance on: How to get started with setting up AI governance.The main industry frameworks and standards for useful baselines.Getting to know how your organisation engages with AI.Here are links to the learning resources Simon and Vik discuss...

In this episode, Vik Khurana explains the ‘building blocks’ of an AI system and various legal and commercial trends, risks and issues. In particular: What are the building blocks? A deep dive on training data, weights and parameters, model code, inference code and computational resources. Where does value and IP reside within each block? What is typically accessible and what is not? What is proprietary and what is open sourced?The different licensing models and regulat...

In this final episode of our three-part mini series on the EU AI Act and its implications for manufacturers of medical devices, Marc Dautlich and Alex Denoon look in detail at Annex V of the Act. Annex V of the EU AI Act requires, amongst other things, that a manufacturer provide the Notified Body making a conformity assessment with a statement that the high risk AI system that is being assessed and which forms part of the medical device, and which involves the processing of personal da...

As rumours swirl of a delay to the date of application of the AI Act, here is part 2 of specialists Marc Dautlich and Alex Denoon's podcast. In this episode, they delve further into Marc’s territory – the principles based GDPR - and note an uncomfortable practical constraint hidden away in Annex V of the EU AI Act. This issue wasn’t addressed in Team-NB’s Position Paper, but is likely to be a significant challenge. Send us a text Thanks for listening! If you have any feedback, questions or co...

Team-NB, representing the majority of Notified Bodies for EU MDR and IVDR medical devices, has issued a stark warning: the implementation of the EU AI Act carries a significant risk of major disruption to the medical device software sector. Their recently published Position Paper doesn't hold back, highlighting critical shortcomings in the implementation framework and emphasising the dwindling time left to address them. Team-NB is urgently calling for swift action to prevent widespread issues...

In the second episode of our series exploring Corporate Law and AI, our experts, Partner Iain Redford (Corporate & Tax) and Partner Vik Khurana (Commercial Technology), highlight some of the key risks which are likely to arise in doing deals with the next generation of AI companies with suggestions about ways to mitigate those risks. Note: All information was correct at the time of recording. (15.04.25) Send us a text Thanks for listening! If you have any feedback, questions or comments, ...

In the first episode of our series exploring Corporate Law and AI, our experts, Partner Vik Khurana (Commercial Technology) and Of Counsel Richard Swaine (Corporate & Tax), focused on the current state of AI transactional work and recognising and protecting value. Note: All information was correct at the time of recording. (14.03.25) Send us a text Thanks for listening! If you have any feedback, questions or comments, please email us at theroadmap@bristows.com Find all the episodes as we...

On this episode of The Roadmap, Alice Esuola-Grant and Jamie Cox discuss legislative updates in consumer technology as a result of the EU’s Product Liability Directive and the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act. They provide an overview of the new provisions, the timeline for implementing the new legislation and things that businesses should start thinking about now to ensure compliance. Note: All information was correct at the time of recording. Send us a text Thanks for lis...

In this episode, James Johnston and Anna Ni Uiginn talk about the EU NIS2 Directive which will raise cybersecurity standards across critical sectors in the EU. James and Anna will discuss the sectors that are within the scope of the directive, along with the new risk management measures and reporting requirements the directive introduces. Note: All information was correct at the time of recording. Send us a text Thanks for listening! If you have any feedback, questions or comments, please ema...

In this episode, Elisa Lindemann and Vik Khurana discuss our benchmarking of the terms of service of the top 10 GenAI providers. They unpack the latest market practice positions and explain what this means to customers and users, in particular how lawyers can advise on best practice use and adoption of GenAI tools and what this might mean for internal use policies and risk management frameworks. Topics include: ownership of outputs generated by AI;accuracy, hallucinations and the level of res...

In this episode, Marc Dautlich takes the Roadmap off-road to speak to special guests, Sean Griffin (Partner at US firm, Longman & Van Grack) and Emily Atkinson (of Bristows’ very own Employment and Immigration team) about the use of AI in the workplace here in the UK and in the US. Marc, Sean and Emily discuss and compare the employment/labour law and data protection issues arising from HR-related uses of AI, including: how existing law is already shaping AI-related workplace dispu...

In this episode, Camille Beckmann speaks to Anneke Pol and Vik Khurana (along with a special guest AI chatbot!) on how to structure contracts to comply with the new EU AI Act. Much of the focus so far has rightly been on compliance with the AI Act, as companies work out whether, and how, it applies to them and what they will need to do to get their AI systems to market. We are now moving to how this will impact AI deals, setting-out emerging best practice for contracting for AI systems and u...

In this episode of The Roadmap, our technology lawyers, Adrian Sim and Freya Ollerearnshaw distil the key issues and takeaways from the one of the biggest tech disputes to reach the UK courts in recent years. They share perspectives that both customers and suppliers may find useful. In particular, Adrian and Freya will explore: the impact of dependency and relief provisions, and what can happen where known dependencies are not expressly included in the contract; how conditions precedent ...

Numerous parallels can be drawn between the EU AI Act and product safety legislation - including risk classification for product liability, conformity assessments, CE marking and post-market surveillance – all of which are mirrored in the Act. But are organisations that are well-versed in placing safety-critical products on the market, better prepared to comply with the product safety aspects of the EU AI Act than others? In the second episode of our mini-series focusing on this significant r...

In the first episode in this series on the EU AI Act, our tech lawyers Anneke Pol and Vik Khurana introduce some key elements of the Act we think all organisations need to be aware of. In particular: how to know whether your AI product or use is “high risk” – a vital question since so many of the Act’s requirements flow from it; andwhat “role” you’re playing under the Act – including, importantly, providers (developers) and deployers (i.e. users). Please stay tuned for upcoming episodes in th...

This bonus episode features Vik Khurana - a partner in our commercial technology team as well as regular guest of this show – in conversation with David Malkinson of Morae, a legal technology company. It’s a recording of a Q&A session which took place at ConnectLive, a major legal tech conference hosted by iManage, in London on 20 June 2024. The discussion explored the impact of GenAI tools within the legal sector and practical adoption considerations. David and Vik also provide their in...

With Alice Esuola-Grant in the host’s seat this week, The Roadmap welcomes Rob Powell to explore the various contractual remedies customers may consider including in their agreements with suppliers when engaging in digital transformation projects. What remedies are available? Which are best suited to the project in hand? Which have we seen work best in practice when invoked? And crucially, which ones are the most practical and realistic to enable you as a customer to achieve your busin...

This time on The Roadmap Chris Holder chats to Rob Powell and Alice Esuola-Grant about managing the procurement process for your digital transformation - from aligning internal stakeholders, going out to market, managing bids and navigating tricky negotiations, as well as co-ordinating your own internal customer teams. Getting the procurement process right can be a key pillar in giving your digital transformation project the best chance of success - setting the tone for your relationship wit...

In this episode, our tech lawyers Vik Khurana and Anneke Pol discuss how IT suppliers use their customers’ data, the risks to customers and what they can do about it. In particular: The supplier arms-race to embed AI in their enterprise products and services.How they are using customer data and the legal and contractual loopholes they are leveraging.A checklist of risks and mitigations customers can use to guard against inadvertent data sharing.How 'hidden AI' in enterprise services is causin...