AI Procurement IS AI Governance
The AI Procurement Lab helps public, private, and education organizations understand how to buy compliant AI.
Applying AI Governance, Now
The AI Procurement Lab has spent years conducting extensive research to modernize procurement processes, establish best practices, and create AI Procurement curriculum for critical workforce upskilling to help organizations operationalize their AI governance policies from the moment AI comes through the front door.
AI Governance Realization
Establishing robust AI oversight is critical for maintaining institutional trust. We specialize in mapping governance policy expectations to governance process operations by using your procurement function to connect your strategic AI goals with your actual ability to govern them. Our research has focused on the differences between yesterday's technology and the unique characteristics of today's AI. Our work makes it clear how procurement's role works to ensure that compliance and ethical standards are integrated into the core of every AI contract.
Strategic AI Procurement
Modernizing how AI is acquired is an essential element of any responsible digital transformation. Our data-driven insights help establish a necessary balance of control between buyers and sellers. By utilizing our proprietary AI procurement archetypes, we empower organizations to move beyond "check-list" vendor assessments toward a dynamic acquisition model that addresses risk-based requirements scoping, transparency, evidence-based evaluations, contractual leverage points (and limits), realistic ROI expectations, and right-sized algorithmic accountability.
Curriculum & Education
Bridging the knowledge gap is essential for effective and fruitful AI adoption. We offer bespoke professional training programs, intensive workshops, and curriculum development for executives, policy-makers, procurement teams, and academic class rooms. Bringing together the learning objectives is the easy part. Making sure it stick is where we excel. Our deep understanding of AI and our experience helping organizations navigate these challenges help us deliver highly memorable curriculum with practical information and resources that can be put to use immediately.
Who we support
Public Sector
Helping local and federal agencies modernize procurement and upskill workers.
Private Enterprise
Assisting procurement teams evaluating high-risk AI tools and modernize worker skillsets.
Academic Programs
Providing curriculum and frameworks for AI courses and professional training programs.
Key Concepts in AI Procurement
Distributed AI Governance
The framework of sharing responsibility and oversight across the entire AI lifecycle. Unlike traditional IT governance, Distributed AI Governance accounts for the fluid nature of machine learning by mapping accountability between developers, vendors, and end-users to ensure no "responsibility gaps" exist.
Key Standards in AI Governance
Our work is grounded in globally recognized, international-based, consensus-built standards, guidelines, and principles.
Our AIPL co-founders and many of our esteemed AIPL Associate Fellows have been directly and indirectly involved in shaping these globally important practices...and remain so to this day.
Let us teach you how to harness the future.
Contact us to learn more about how to navigate the risks and benefits associated with purchasing AI - AND/OR - partner with us to conduct research.