Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Publisher

Appara

City

Vancouver, BC

Abstract

AI is seemingly everywhere. Hardly a day goes by in which there is not another media report on new areas in which the technology is being deployed and its potential consequences. While the advances of AI entail many opportunities for business and society, they also create challenges and risks. Although there is already awareness around problems such as AI bias, privacy, and human rights impacts, there are significant issues arising in the specific business-to-business context that have remained largely hidden and tend to receive much less attention. This article will, first, look at business-to-business more generally and show how AI erodes business users’ authority and control, while creating new dependencies. It will then examine consequences for legal professionals and their business clients more specifically. The article concludes with some thoughts on action points for these users of AI as well as thoughts on potential regulatory steps to mitigate the challenges that are bound to arise in the coming years.

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