AI Knowledge, Value & Supply Chains, AI Explainability Clauses & more - New Definitions at Indic Pacific Glossary!
From Abhivardhan, via Indic Pacific Legal Research
Presenting some new definitions related to artificial intelligence from the Indic Pacific Glossary by Indic Pacific Legal Research LLP for March 2025: AI explainability clause, AI literacy, AI Knowledge Chains, AI Value Chains and AI Supply Chains. :)
You can find all the definitions at indicpacific.com/glossary.
Why are these definitions important?
1️⃣ I've stated before that AI Governance as a concept is not going to deprecate itself at all. So, let's keep building sustainable AI governance practices across markets.
2️⃣ Second, all of these definitions have their own special contexts.
3️⃣ AI Literacy is perhaps the most important AI education & awareness consideration, which should be addressed in so many cases, like vendor agreements in the case of B2C (Business-to-consumer) interactions with a consumer-centric view, G2C (government-to-citizen) initiatives including those involving digital public infrastructure, since we cannot expect bureaucrats, politicians, ministers and judges to know anything specific or well-evolved around AI, AI ethics, AI innovation, AI governance and / or AI supply chains. So, yes, this definition might be a simple way to explore how AI literacy could be approached.
In fact, I would suggest that at least making AI literacy binding under the European Union AI Act can be a requirement which can be globalised under various AI & law frameworks & legislations.
4️⃣ AI Explainability Clauses are equally important. Now, while explainability is a tricky territory at times due to the 'black box' and 'trolley' problems, clauses associated with maintaining reciprocity to explain an AI system's actions can be so much relieving and helpful in dispute resolution, and future contractual negotiations. Forget the EU AI Act, GDPR, DPDPA, everything. An explainability clause could be a relief for an App Development Team and even in some cases, Product Management teams to just adhere to aspects of explanation which could be readily pursued. This doesn't mean the clauses cannot be stringent, but I am focusing more on unregulated markets on AI, which is still most of the world, excluding China, US states and Europe.
5️⃣ AI Knowledge Chains are also necessary to be defined for understanding purposes, beyond and before regulation. First, knowledge chains are directly tied up with intellectual property rights issues, and then data protection + cybersecurity issues. So, yes, this is a given. Second - knowledge chains are so important for pushing for credible AI research. Hence, read out our definition.
6️⃣ AI Supply & Value Chains are an obvious given. Supply is associated with ecosystems of resources, technologies, and services, while Value is associated with ecosystems of stakeholders - from promoters, to vendors, to processors to researchers, to distributors, and I don't know - even deployers! So adding these definitions was an absolute given.