Who Bears Responsibility for AI in Arbitration? The EU AI Act and the Role of Arbitral Institutions
A legal analysis examines how the EU AI Act assigns responsibility when artificial intelligence is used in arbitration proceedings, focusing on what obligations fall on arbitral institutions that deploy or rely on such tools.
Why this matters: Arbitration is where serious disputes get resolved — commercial contracts, investor claims, employment cases. If AI is helping shape those outcomes, someone needs to own the result when it goes wrong. The EU AI Act tries to answer that, but the rules only work if institutions actually apply them. Right now, arbitral bodies are not governments and not quite ordinary businesses. That ambiguity is exactly the kind of gap that lets accountability slip through.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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