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Legal and Transformational Change Challenges in Generative AI Implementations

December 10, 2024

Volker Matz and Martin Cox outline some of the obstacles facing organisations seeking to use generative AI in their processes. Generative AI is at the forefront of current and future organisational change, offering signiﬁcant opportunities for innovation but also posing challenges around adoption, copyright, and regulatory compliance. As businesses integrate AI-generated content into their operations,…

Communications and Digital Select Committee publishes report on future of news and impact of AI

November 26, 2024

The House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee has published its report on the future of news. It says that the risk of a “two tier” media environment in the UK is growing. The economics of mass market journalism are worsening, trust is low, and more people are actively avoiding mainstream reporting. News enthusiasts…

This Week’s Techlaw News Round-up

November 8, 2024

UK law CMA consults on draft guidance for the markets regime in the Enterprise Act 2002 The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is consulting on its draft new guidance for the markets regime in the Enterprise Act 2002, as amended by the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. The consultation ends on 3 December…

Generative AI: Redefining Access To Justice

Analysis • October 25, 2024

Amanda Chaboryk examines how policies and organisations may need to adapt if generative AI is to be used to improve access to justice. Introduction The legal field has consistently faced a growing and essential demand for innovation to tackle persistent issues related to access to justice. At a high level, the primary factors that impact access…

UK Regulatory Innovation Office launched

News • October 24, 2024

The UK government is launching a new Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), which aims to reduce the burden for businesses hoping to bring new products and services to the market in some of the UK’s fastest-growing sectors. The RIO will support regulators to update regulation, with the aim of speeding up approvals, and ensuring different regulatory…

The SCL AI Conference: Key Takeaways

Analysis, Event Reports • October 14, 2024

Mauricio Figueroa summarises the key points from the SCL AI Conference hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills on 8th October. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics, trainees, in-house lawyers, and civil society representatives gathered at Herbert Smith Freehills’ offices in London for the annual Society for Computers and Law AI conference. The event brought together experts to explore the…

IA Before AI: Facilitating Generative AI Adoption within Legal Teams

Analysis • October 2, 2024

Amanda Chaboryk and Nicholas Cook highlight the importance of reviewing your information architecture before using your data for generative AI The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), and generative AI (GenAI) in particular, has resulted in a dawning era of transformative potential in the legal domain. It has been met with a range of reactions from…

Companies sign EU AI Pact to drive trustworthy and safe AI development

News • October 1, 2024

The European Commission has announced that over a hundred companies have signed the EU AI Pact and its voluntary pledges. These include multinational corporations and European SMEs. They represent many sectors including IT, healthcare, banking, automotive and aeronautics. The Pact is aimed at supporting industry’s voluntary commitments to start applying the principles of the EU’s…

This Week’s Techlaw News Round-up

News • September 27, 2024

UK law Patents Court considers ongoing restrictions in confidentiality agreement In Alcatel Lucent SAS v Amazon Digital UK Ltd and others [2024] EWHC 2339 (Pat), the Patents Court considered the extent of a confidentiality order. The case arose in the context of an action against Amazon for infringement of standard essential patents owned by the…