Artificial intelligence

As calls for regulation grow, the UK’s artificial intelligence rulebook remains a work in progress, write Nick Smallwood & Paul Knight

Law firms are under growing pressure to understand performance sooner and make confident decisions using current information. Billy Hume explains how EveAI helps finance teams and firm leaders ask questions of live financial data, reduce reporting effort and surface the areas that need attention.

Pressure is mounting for a dedicated UK AI law, but deciding what it should achieve remains the central challenge

The use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) poses ‘significant risks’ across the justice system, public services and government, and current regulation is ‘poorly suited’ to control it, experts have warned

Catherine Cain, senior solicitor at Which?, on why AI can’t replace the human touch

When AI gets it wrong, who is responsible for defamation? Hanna Basha & Jamie Hurworth consider where liability may lie

Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention

AI in legal proceedings: Benjamin Wells & Ceyda Ilgen explore emerging risks & the practitioner’s duty

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the legal profession. Once considered a conservative industry slow to adopt new technology, the legal sector is increasingly turning to AI to manage growing workloads, meet client expectations, and improve efficiency. The arrival of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT has accelerated this shift, enabling legal professionals to automate routine tasks and focus more on strategic work.

MPs have called for legislation to protect against the human rights risks of artificial intelligence (AI)