---
id: "quote-ai-negotiates-what-it-knows"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ Ensure the quality of the data is high."]
tags: ["data-quality", "training-data"]
related: ["concept-domain-specific-legal-training"]
speaker: "Elena Revilla and Maria Jesus Saenz"
speakers: ["Elena Revilla", "Maria Jesus Saenz"]
quote: "AI negotiates with what it knows. This means that AI should be trained on domain-specific legal data to ensure it produces clear, enforceable contracts aligned with applicable law."
sources: ["tail2"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail2"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-tail-129-ai-supplier-negotiations"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/07/how-ai-is-reshaping-supplier-negotiations"
sourceTitle: "How AI Is Reshaping Supplier Negotiations"
---
# AI Negotiates With What It Knows

> "AI negotiates with what it knows. This means that AI should be trained on domain-specific legal data to ensure it produces clear, enforceable contracts aligned with applicable law."
> — [[entity-elena-revilla]] and [[entity-maria-jesus-saenz]]

The compressed statement of [[concept-domain-specific-legal-training]]: an AI's negotiating behavior is bounded by its training data, so legal, jurisdiction-specific data quality is a hard prerequisite ([[prereq-domain-specific-legal-data]]).

**Related:** [[concept-domain-specific-legal-training]] · [[quote-precision-non-negotiable]]