Fortune 500 Healthcare Company Asks For AI To Negotiate Contracts With No Human Lawyers

A Fortune 500 healthcare company asked software provider Spellbook for an AI system that negotiates and redlines contracts with no human oversight. Corporate legal departments face demands to cut costs by handing routine agreements like non-disclosure agreements over to software. Removing attorneys from these reviews introduces risks of unauthorized practice of law and security threats like prompt injection.

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