{"id":187167,"date":"2026-02-13T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/the-artificial-intelligence-benchmark-the-most-important-clause-youve-never-used-part-1-shumaker-loop-kendrick-llp\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:55:10","slug":"the-artificial-intelligence-benchmark-the-most-important-clause-youve-never-used-part-1-shumaker-loop-kendrick-llp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/the-artificial-intelligence-benchmark-the-most-important-clause-youve-never-used-part-1-shumaker-loop-kendrick-llp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artificial Intelligence Benchmark: The Most Important Clause You\u2019ve Never Used (Part 1) | Shumaker, Loop &#038; Kendrick, LLP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/the-artificial-intelligence-benchmark-1554522\/\">The Artificial Intelligence Benchmark: The Most Important Clause You\u2019ve Never Used (Part 1) | Shumaker, Loop &#038; Kendrick, LLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/the-artificial-intelligence-benchmark-1554522\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/the-artificial-intelligence-benchmark-1554522\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 13:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a summary of the article on benchmarking importance in AI contracts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Key Role of Benchmarking in AI Contracts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benchmark testing bridges aspirational AI promises and measurable, enforceable performance.<\/li>\n<li>Contracts without robust testing requirements rely on unverifiable claims of AI performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Importance of Consistent AI Performance<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI performance depends on context, and &#8220;real world&#8221; data is rarely used in demos. <\/li>\n<li>The AI model may not produce the same results after deployment as during tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Need for Performance Stability<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI systems change due to vendor updates and changes in user environments.<\/li>\n<li>Without robust metrics, detecting performance drifts fall on the user&#8217;s responsibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Critical Benchmark Tests for Different AI Types<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foundational Generative AI: accuracy, hallucinations, instruction following, confidentiality<\/li>\n<li>Retrieval-based AI: citation correctness, grounding, recency controls, access controls<\/li>\n<li>Predictive AI: precision\/recall, calibration, bias\/fairness, stability, explainability<\/li>\n<li>Agentic AI: tool-use correctness, permission boundaries, safety constraints, auditability, adversarial resilience, kill-switch and rollback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Consequences of Inadequate Benchmarking<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operational failures resulting in business process errors and costly manual corrections.<\/li>\n<li>Legal and regulatory issues leading to potential violations of consumer protection laws and anti-discrimination statutes.<\/li>\n<li>Potential leaks of confidential information by AI through misconfiguration or malicious inputs.<\/li>\n<li>Downstream risks like inaccurate or biased output leading to policy violations or record integrity issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This summary highlights why benchmarking is integral to AI contracts across different use cases and the critical role it plays in ensuring reliable and safe AI deployment.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Artificial Intelligence Benchmark: The Most Important Clause You\u2019ve Never Used (Part 1) | Shumaker,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.7704_1514.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-187167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187169,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187167\/revisions\/187169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}