‘Researchers are trying to come up with new, better ways to test AI.’ Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/24/1119187/fix-ai-evaluation-crisis/

Link: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2025/749.html

‘AI will transform industries. However, this transformation will happen on enterprise time: longer, slower, and with far more friction than most expect, and much slower than Silicon Valley is selling. Right now, companies are getting six fundamental things wrong about how AI will create value and how long it will take—and risk wasting resources, overpromising results,…

‘This paper begins with a brief technical explanation of generative AI and how only a small subset of entities – the landlords of creativity – have access to the computational resources and expertise needed to create foundation models that enable audio deepfakes. It then examines how regulatory regimes in America, the European Union (EU), and…

‘A general overview of artificial intelligence (AI) designed for academic students, workers, researchers and teachers. It is a less technical introduction for those of us who are not familiar with computer science. It focuses primarily on generative AI (Gen AI) as this is the tool that is rapidly transforming every aspect of academic work. This…

‘The development of the principle of non-delegation in administrative law was a response to the perceived needs of a ‘modern machinery of government’, which emerged in post-war 1940s Britain. While it ostensibly sought to ensure that decision-makers appropriately retain their decision-making discretion, and through that political accountability, it has developed into a permissive doctrine that…

‘The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

‘Pressure on the UK government to legislate on the issue of AI and copyright is expected to intensify in the months ahead as a statutory timeframe for action kicks into effect.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/analysis/ai-and-copyright-post-data-bill-uk-timeline-2026

‘Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has won the backing of a judge in a copyright lawsuit brought by a group of authors, in the second legal victory for the US artificial intelligence industry this week.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/26/meta-wins-ai-copyright-lawsuit-as-us-judge-rules-against-authors

‘At the start of the year, the Prime Minister outlined the UK Government’s vision for making the UK a global leader in AI innovation in its response to the AI Opportunities Action Plan.’ Link: https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/immigration-law-blog/the-uk-governments-plan-for-ai-and-the-uk-immigration-white-paper

‘In this article, we investigate the relationship between human oversight and fairness within the evolving framework of EU AI regulatory governance. We address two core research questions: (1) How are human oversight and fairness related? and (2) To what extent does the AI Act establish a framework for human oversight that effectively supports the implementation…

Link: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/pdfs/ukpga_20250018_en.pdf

‘The BBC is threatening legal action against Perplexity AI, in the corporation’s first move to protect its content from being scraped without permission to build artificial intelligence technology.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/20/bbc-threatens-legal-action-against-ai-startup-over-content-scraping

‘The Commission has launched a public consultation to gather input on implementing the AI Act’s rules on high-risk AI systems.’ Link: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-launches-public-consultation-high-risk-ai-systems

‘This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A…

‘As AI adoption increases, surveillance-related chilling effects are likely to impair individuals’ ability to freely develop their identities. This article examines International Human Rights Law’s (IHRL) approach to the protection of identity to assess its preparedness against this challenge. It determines that while identity is a central concept in IHRL, no clear and unified approach…

‘In October 2023 I wrote in the Solicitors Journal that the legal profession must balance the potential benefits and risks of the widespread use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), but also make sure that future legal professionals have the knowledge to understand it. Law graduates need to dedicate proper attention to digital skills around AI…

‘In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have grown in size and complexity, driving greater demand for computational power and natural resources. In parallel to this trend, transparency around the costs and impacts of these models has decreased, meaning that the users of these technologies have little to no information about their resource demands and…

‘The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/17/ai-boom-environment-agency-cannot-predict-future-water-shortages-england-data-centres

‘The integration of AI into judicial systems is transforming how judges and legal professionals work. AI tools have been proposed for tasks such as legal research, decision support, evidence analysis, and case management. However, little work has been done to inform the design of AI systems that might be used in judges’ day-to-day work activities.…

Link: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ayinde-v-London-Borough-of-Haringey-and-Al-Haroun-v-Qatar-National-Bank.pdf

‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) should introduce an “overriding” ethical duty for lawyers, much like the overriding objective in civil procedure, academics at the UCL Centre for Ethics and Law have argued.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/leading-legal-academics-call-for-overriding-ethical-duty

‘The EU’s highest court could clarify whether rights press publishers have to control the reproduction of their content online are engaged where extracts of their content are displayed to users of generative AI (gen-AI) tools operated by other businesses.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/ai-copyright-questions-eu-court

‘All civil servants in England and Wales will get practical training in how to use artificial intelligence to speed up their work from this autumn, the Guardian has learned.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/all-civil-servants-in-england-and-wales-to-get-ai-training

‘A vast new datacentre to feed Britain’s rising demand for artificial intelligence could cause more greenhouse gas emissions than five international airports.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/06/planned-ai-datacentre-in-england-could-cause-five-times-emissions-of-big-airport

‘Arbitrators who use artificial intelligence (AI) in their decisions have been warned against “cognitive inertia” in new guidelines from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb).’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/arbitrators-who-use-ai-warned-against-cognitive-inertia

‘Teachers in England can use artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up marking and write letters home to parents, new government guidance says.’ Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kvyj7dkp0o

‘The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched a new AI and biometrics strategy in a bid to ensure organisations are developing and deploying new technologies lawfully.’ Link: https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/information-law/398-information-law-news/61185-ico-launches-ai-and-biometrics-strategy

‘On Tuesday, 6th May, 2025, Professor Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos organised an influential symposium entitled ‘AI and Modern Technologies in Criminal Justice: Opportunities and Human Rights Implications’ held  at the City Law School, City St George’s, University of London. It was focused on discussing the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies on the criminal…

‘In a world where one’s digital blueprint has already become a determining factor for the achievement of various socio-economic rights such as employment, education, and other personal milestones, the prospect of automating this screening and extending it to migration and border control could reshape the globe’s demographics in profound ways. Indeed, an increasingly debated topic…

‘The Civil Justice Council has created a working group to examine the use of artificial intelligence in preparing court documents and consider recommending amendments to procedure rules. Terms of reference should be published within the next few weeks, a spokesperson told the Gazette.’ Link: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/fake-citations-civil-justice-council-sets-up-ai-working-group/5123520.article

‘Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, have demonstrated impressive capabilities in summarisation and content generation. However, they are infamously prone to hallucination, fabricating plausible information and presenting it as fact. In the context of legal research, this poses significant risk. This paper, written by Sally McLaren and Lily Rowe, examines how widely available AI applications respond to fabricated…

‘James Lloyd discusses the judgment handed down on 6 June 2025 in Ayinde v London Borough of Haringey and Al-Haroun v Qatar National Bank [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin), in which the Divisional Court issued a powerful warning to legal professionals about the risks of using generative artificial intelligence tools for legal research and drafting, and provided a stark reminder of…

‘Internet safety campaigners have urged the UK’s communications watchdog to limit the use of artificial intelligence in crucial risk assessments after a report that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta was planning to automate checks.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/08/campainers-urge-uk-watchdog-to-limit-use-of-ai-after-report-of-meta-plan-to-automate-checks

‘The social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/04/reddit-lawsuit-ai-startup-anthropic-data

‘The task of reading and rating the thousands of outputs submitted to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework is notoriously Herculean. Could AI ease the burden – or would its use undermine the whole point of having REF panels? As Jisc consults on that question, four writers offer their views.’ Link: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/could-generative-ai-improve-ref

‘The House of Lords has dealt a fourth defeat to the government over its plans to allow tech companies to use copyrighted material to train their models.’ Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrgv2n190o

‘The Utah court of appeals has sanctioned a lawyer after he was discovered to have used ChatGPT for a filing he made in which he referenced a nonexistent court case.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/31/utah-lawyer-chatgpt-ai-court-brief

‘The government has run a trial of using artificial intelligence (AI) with 20,000 civil servants which it said demonstrates they could save nearly two weeks each annually by using the technology.’ Link: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366625063/Microsoft-Copilot-AI-saves-civil-service-hours-of-admin-work

‘As more students use generative AI for help with their work, UK universities are scrambling to root out cheating by students who submit assignments wholly or partially written using AI chat bots such as ChatGPT. ‘ Link: https://www.5sah.co.uk/knowledge-hub/articles/2025-05-20/ai-in-universities-the-fine-line-between-help-and-misconduct-sharmistha-michaels-writes-for-solicitors-journal

‘As generative AI (GenAI) continues to permeate academia, distinguishing between student-authored essays and those by Large Language Models (LLMs) becomes crucial for maintaining academic integrity. This study conducted a survey on the ethical awareness of using generative AI tools among a group of STEM students (n=156). Also, we empirically evaluate the effectiveness of state-of-the-art LLM…