Build a legal-risk table for a client's AI system
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the system papers, list candidate privacy, consumer, discrimination and sector issues with the documents that support each row.
- What the lawyer must review
- Assess each issue against current law
- Do not treat a generated 'high risk' label as the advice
- Written for / version
- US
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: US
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Consider narrowly defined preparation support after confirming the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Verify the applicable jurisdiction and the version of each relevant law, rule or instrument in force at the material time.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal risk table for a client's AI system | Memo | AI use Yellow | Internal table for advice on one client system: the facts taken from the client's papers, the questions the principal still has to answer, and the principal's rating on each risk. |
| Reassessment when a model, purpose or provider changes | Checklist | AI use Yellow | Checklist for when the model, the purpose, the data or the provider of a decision system changes, asking which earlier conclusions have to be made again and by whom. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.