Five clauses that decide whether an AI contract protects you

In short: five clauses decide whether an AI contract protects the buyer: data use and retention, an intellectual-property indemnity whose conditions you can actually meet, notice and testing before model changes, cooperation with regulators across the value chain, and a workable exit. A sixth applies when suppliers deliver work made with AI: disclosure and named verification before payment.^1,2,3

Buying AI is buying a dependency on a model you did not train, a supplier you cannot fully audit and a roadmap you do not control. Standard software terms were not written for that. Five clauses do most of the work of making an AI contract fit for purpose.