‘Privacy is a hot topic for policymakers across the globe, including the United States. Evolving advances in AI and emerging concerns about the misuse of personal data have pushed policymakers to draft legislation on trustworthy AI and privacy protection for its citizens. This paper presents the state of the privacy legislation at the U.S. Congress…

‘Researchers focusing on how artificial intelligence (AI) methods explain their decisions often discuss controversies and limitations. Some even assert that most publications offer little to no valuable contributions. In this article, we substantiate the claim that explainable AI (XAI) is in trouble by describing and illustrating four problems: the disagreements on the scope of XAI,…

‘The rapid progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) could transform many fields, but their fast development creates significant challenges for oversight, ethical creation, and building user trust. This comprehensive review looks at key trust issues in LLMs, such as unintended harms, lack of transparency, vulnerability to attacks, alignment with human values, and environmental impact. Many…

‘This study aims to determine the awareness and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the respondent libraries of Karnataka based on demographic variables such as gender, age, academic status, and professional experience. This study employed a survey research method to evaluate the awareness and adoption of AI technologies among the respondent library professionals in…

‘Deepfakes are audio-visual content that has been generated or manipulated using AI, and that misrepresents someone or something. New generative AI tools allow users to create wholly new content that can be life-like and make it significantly easier for anyone with modest technical skill to create deepfakes.’ Link: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/deepfake-defences

‘The UK’s new administration is warming up to the ‘white heat’ of technology. During the election campaign, Labour politicians announced plans for using AI1 to help with truancy, to support jobseekers and to analyse hospital scans. Peter Kyle, the incoming Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, has spoken warmly about the power of technology to save time and make…

‘Despite explainable AI (XAI) has recently become a hot topic and several different approaches have been developed, there is still a widespread belief that it lacks a convincing unifying foundation. On the other hand, over the past centuries, the very concept of explanation has been the subject of extensive philosophical analysis in an attempt to…

‘Researchers claim that Taylor & Francis kept details of deal quiet, but company insists that citation and limits on verbatim quoting will be sacrosanct.’ Link: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academic-backlash-publisher-lets-microsoft-train-ai-papers

‘The development of technology presents opportunities and challenges for the education system. This study investigates the integration of ChatGPT into higher education, focusing on tourism studies. Using a duoethnography approach, the study explores the experiences of two tourism educators who incorporate ChatGPT into their pedagogy and assessment methods. Results reveal that acknowledging students’ mixed responses…

‘The European Union Parliament passed the EU AI Act in 2024, which is an important milestone towards the world’s first comprehensive AI law to formally take effect. Although this is a significant achievement, the real work begins with putting these rules into action, a journey filled with challenges and opportunities. This perspective article reviews recent…

‘Domain-specific Entity Recognition holds significant importance in legal contexts, serving as a fundamental task that supports various applications such as question-answering systems, text summarization, machine translation, sentiment analysis, and information retrieval specifically within case law documents. Recent advancements have highlighted the efficacy of Large Language Models in natural language processing tasks, demonstrating their capability to…

‘Competition authorities globally are coalescing in their efforts to understand, monitor, and proactively address competition issues that may arise from rapidly developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/ai-competition-statement-joint-commitment-antitrust-enforcers

‘Using generative AI to bridge the Literacy, Equity, Access and Privilege gaps for self-represented litigants.’ Link: https://tinyurl.com/aall-spectrum

‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly subject to regulation in various jurisdictions, including the United States of America (U.S.). This blogpost provides an overview of the current regulatory landscape in the U.S. and examines key initiatives at both federal and state level. By exploring both the potential and shortcomings of these efforts, this blogpost aims to…

‘Generative AI’s voracious consumption of data is starting to run up against strict rules protecting individuals’ rights to data privacy in Europe and around the world.’ Link: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/ais-data-appetite-is-huge-thats-a-problem-for-privacy-laws

‘Automation has historically impacted blue-collar jobs first, whereas white-collar jobs benefited. The wave of remote work brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic further empowered white-collar workers with more autonomy through remote work. However, generative AI is changing this narrative. Remote workers are now more susceptible to automation due to their tasks being digital and thus…

‘As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance and become more integrated into various industries, including the legal field, it’s crucial for lawyers in the UK to familiarise themselves with the relevant terminology. Understanding these terms will not only help you communicate more effectively with clients, colleagues, and experts but also enable you to navigate the…

‘Open model developers have emerged as key actors in the political economy of artificial intelligence (AI), but we still have a limited understanding of collaborative practices in the open AI ecosystem. This paper responds to this gap with a three-part quantitative analysis of development activity on the Hugging Face (HF) Hub, a popular platform for…

‘Two years ago, OpenAI released the public beta of DALL-E 2, an image-generation tool that immediately signified that we’d entered a new technological era. Trained off a huge body of data, DALL-E 2 produced unsettlingly good, delightful, and frequently unexpected outputs; my Twitter feed filled up with images derived from prompts such as close-up photo of…

‘The European Union’s AI Act and the UK’s AI Bill in the House of Lords represent two significant legislative efforts aimed at regulating artificial intelligence (AI) within their respective jurisdictions. Both frameworks seek to ensure ethical AI development and usage while fostering innovation, yet they diverge significantly in their regulatory approaches and implications.’ Link: https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/corporate-and-commercial-law-blog/the-ai-regulatory-regimes-of-the-eu-and-the-uk-and-how-best-to-comply

‘Companies need new ways to innovate quickly, cheaply, and productively. Many, quite reasonably, wonder how deploying AI might help. To investigate, we researched how companies are using AI for innovation and found that tools are just tools — success depends on how organizations use these new tools now at their disposal. To investigate what kinds…

‘The search engine’s response to ChatGPT and its ilk is to take a highly partial approach to what it considers worthy of attention.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/20/googles-wrong-answer-to-the-threat-of-ai-stop-indexing-content

‘OpenAI is testing a new search engine that uses generative artificial intelligence to produce results, raising the prospect of a significant challenge to Google’s dominance of the online search market.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/25/openai-search-engine-searchgpt

‘In the coming decades, as the pace of technological change continues to increase, millions of workers may need to be not just upskilled but reskilled—a profoundly complex societal challenge that will sometimes require workers to both acquire new skills and change occupations entirely. Companies have a critical role to play in addressing this challenge, but to…

‘Only a handful of people grasp the magnitude of the changes that are about to hit us. They’re exciting – and terrifying.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/22/artificial-intelligence-panic-time-change

‘After Meta said it would keep its next multimodal AI out of Europe, the company is now releasing Llama 3.1, an open-source AI model with performance rivaling ChatGPT and Google Gemini. The model now has 405 billion parameters, achieved with training on 16,000 enterprise-level Nvidia GPUs. What’s that mean for you, aside from some existential dread on…

‘The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and its generative capabilities have propelled innovation across various industries, yet they have also sparked intricate legal debates, particularly in the realm of copyright law. Generative AI systems, capable of producing original content based on user-provided input or prompts, have introduced novel challenges regarding ownership and authorship of AI-generated…

‘Assessing law students has always been a challenging task, but the introduction of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), such as ChatGPT, compounds the problems already caused by increased student numbers, contract cheating and budget cuts in universities. As GenAI rapidly develops, legal educators must find ways to accommodate, and even incorporate, GenAI into their curricula and assessments so…

‘Copyright and patent law require the identification of an author or inventor, and further require the author or inventor to be human. We explore this requirement primarily with reference to U.S. law and provide additional illustrations from U.K. and E.U. law.’ Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4892973

‘OpenAI introduced a smaller, more cost-efficient version of its most powerful model GPT-4o — and it could mean even more AI-powered apps.’ Link: https://qz.com/openai-small-version-gpt4o-mini-chatgpt-cost-efficient-1851598869

‘Thus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with tools that can reliably detect when a piece of writing was generated using a large language model. Now, a group of researchers has established a novel method for estimating LLM usage across a large set of scientific writing by measuring which “excess words” started showing up…

‘Businesses developing and procuring AI tools have been urged to build their understanding of how the new EU AI Act will apply to them, and the risk management obligations they may be subject to, after the legislation was written into EU law on Friday.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/ai-act-written-into-eu-law-as-compliance-clock-ticks

‘How do we as libraries position ourselves in the institutional conversations about AI to best support these principles, demonstrate our value and embark on some work that actually contributes to student learning in this space?’ Link: https://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/why-libraries-need-to-take-the-centre-ground-in-organisational-discussions-on-ai/

‘Some observers are beginning to question whether gen AI will produce enough value to exceed its costs. It can, but extracting economic value from gen AI requires several different types of disciplined capabilities. Unfortunately, most companies lack these. The good news is they can develop them. Specifically, companies should invest in behavioral change, controlled experimentation,…

‘It’s the simplest questions that are often the hardest to answer. That applies to AI, too. Even though it’s a technology being sold as a solution to the world’s problems, nobody seems to know what it really is. It’s a label that’s been slapped on technologies ranging from self-driving cars to facial recognition, chatbots to…

‘Early this year, we began to explore the potential of supervisory AI agents as “intelligent alarms” for generative AI integrations in legal workflows. We consider that supervisory AI agents provide multi-prong risk mitigation by behaving both as a guardrail and continuous monitoring for legal professionals that use generative AI in their work processes. In the…

‘Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) have always found it challenging to improve the accessibility of their collections.With physical objects, institutions lack the physical space for public exposure. As digitisation technology became more affordable, and the Internet – widespread, there was hope that the accessibility issue will be resolved once and for all. Unfortunately, to quote Erik…

‘Producer Chris Skipper is joined by guests Marjolein Pordon of ladylowcode.com fame and Andri Johnston from Cambridge University Press & Assessment to discuss the sustainability challenges associated with AI’s increasing energy demands and the role of data centers in addressing these challenges. Marjolein emphasizes the need for sustainable infrastructure and the potential synergy between low-code…

‘Many consumers suffer from inadequate information and behavioral biases, which can produce internalities, understood as costs that people impose on their future selves. In these circumstances, “Choice Engines,” powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), might produce significant savings in terms of money, health, safety, or time. Different consumers care about different things, of course, which is…

‘This chapter examines these issues, categorizing problematic outputs into three legal categories: discriminatory content; harassment; and legally hard cases like unbalanced content, harmful stereotypes or misclassification. It argues for holding genAI providers and deployers liable for discriminatory outputs and highlights the inadequacy of traditional legal frameworks to address genAI-specific issues. The chapter suggests updating EU…

‘Automatic summarization of legal case judgements, which are known to be long and complex, has traditionally been tried via extractive summarization models. In recent years, generative models including abstractive summarization models and Large language models (LLMs) have gained huge popularity. In this paper, we explore the applicability of such models for legal case judgement summarization.…

‘This is the introductory part of a multipart series on using synthetic data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. Part 2 of this series will cover the question of how training AI models on synthetic data may mitigate copyright infringement risks. Part 3 will cover the interplay between synthetic data training sets, the EU Copyright…

‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered recruitment systems are discriminating against disabled people. The people developing and using the systems need to look again at how they work and employers of all sizes and sectors to understand the risks that they face when using these solutions.’ Link: https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/Is-AI-discriminating-against-disabled-job-applicants

‘To equip parliaments with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the landscape of AI, these guidelines consider ethical implications, transparency, accountability, and the integration of AI within the parliamentary workspace, and more. They provide a framework that parliaments can adapt to their context and needs.’ Link: https://www.wfd.org/ai-guidelines-parliaments

‘How to navigate open source evidence in an era of deepfakes. By Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees and Professor Alexa Koenig.’ Link: https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/can-t-believe-your-eyes-

‘The King’s speech stated that the Starmer-led Government “will seek to establish the appropriate legislation to place requirements on those working to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence models.”’ Link: https://www.twobirds.com/en/artificial-intelligence-insights/shared/insights/2024/uk/labours-plans-for-ai-regulation–in-the-kings-speech

‘The training process for a single AI model, such as an LLM, can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons of carbon. AI model training can also lead to the evaporation of an astonishing amount of freshwater into the atmosphere for data center heat rejection, potentially exacerbating stress on our…

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly evolved from a sci-fi idea to a crucial part of modern technology, impacting a number of industries like healthcare, banking, education, and law enforcement. Fairness and bias issues with AI systems have drawn a lot of attention as they grow increasingly prevalent in everyday life. In artificial intelligence, “bias” refers…

‘Delays in legal proceedings significantly impact both corporate finances and individual livelihoods. Traditional methods for managing these delays typically rely on subjective assessments of what constitutes a reasonable process duration. This study explores a more precise approach by integrating machine learning and process mining techniques to enhance prediction of legal proceedings’ overall time. Diverging from previous works…