AI Governance Isn’t Failing. It’s Just In The Wrong Place.

The piece contends that understanding AI governance requires examining these contracts, which have become 'ground zero' for the field.

A key shift identified in the article is that 'training rights are replacing data clauses' as the most important element in AI contracts. This means that instead of focusing solely on data ownership or privacy, contracts now negotiate the right to train AI models on specific data sets. The article suggests that these contractual provisions effectively determine how AI systems learn and operate, often without public oversight.