AI is moving from adoption to accountability. Legal departments and the wider business are now asking what AI actually delivers, what it costs, and what risks it brings. As the technology becomes a recurring operating expense, organizations need a clearer view of where it creates real value, how it should be governed, and how to avoid commitments they will later regret.

This panel will explore those questions from three distinct viewpoints: economics, policy, and real-world institutional deployment.

THEMES

• The current context: Signal versus noise
  What does the evidence say about AI’s effects on productivity and the wider economy, and how does it compare with earlier technologies? For counsel, how is AI changing the way legal work is done and paid for?
  
  
• The smart money: From adoption to value
  The conversation is shifting from who is using AI to what it delivers and what it costs. How do teams and organizations get the data they need to make informed technology purchasing decisions? And what terms should they be negotiating with suppliers to stay in the driver’s seat as the pricing landscape shifts?
  
  
• Preparing for the new AI economy: Risk, responsibility, and advising the organization
  What have the courts said about AI errors? What do regulators expect of lawyers? And how can legal teams advise on risk when the technology and the rules are both moving?