‘Over the summer of 2025, the much-watched case Bartz v. Anthropic took an unexpected turn: the parties reached a proposed settlement for US$1.5 billion. This development raises a number of legal, practical, and doctrinal questions — especially for authors, publishers, and institutions grappling with generative AI. But first, some background information on the litigation.’ Link: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/citylawforum/2025/09/29/the-anthropic-settlement-what-it-means-for-authors-ai-firms-and-copyright/

‘The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) means that lawyers will need to become more creative in how they charge their clients, with the billable hour unlikely to survive, it has been claimed.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/lawyers-need-to-find-new-ways-to-charge-in-ai-world

‘In the face of increasing austerity and threats of AI-enabled labor replacement at the University of Michigan, a group of workers and students have coalesced around the project of “AI resistance” since Fall 2024. Forming a cross-departmental coalition including librarians, faculty, staff, graduate workers, and undergraduate students, we have hosted a public workshop questioning the…

‘Curriculum decisions in Higher Education (HE) regarding students’ use of Generative AI (GenAI) are often substantiated by arguments such as graduate employability. This labour market orientation dictates that, because GenAI will inevitably play a crucial role in their future jobs, we should prepare our students by allowing or even encouraging them to use GenAI tools…

‘The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into the legal practice has transformed the profession, significantly improving efficiency in areas such as legal research, drafting, eDiscovery, and client interactions. However, this rapid adoption has introduced ethical, regulatory, and professional challenges, including risks of AI hallucinations, breaches of client confidentiality, embedded biases, professional responsibility and…

‘Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?’ Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/

‘Many tech CEOs and scientists praise AI as the savior of humanity, while others see it as an existential threat. We explain why both fail to address the real questions of responsibility.’ Link: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/agi-and-longtermist-abstractions/

‘Hyperbole and artificial intelligence go together like robots and irritating mechanical voices. But one recent survey regarding the nascent technology stands out from the crowd: about four out of five of the largest City solicitors’ firms are marketing their use of AI to corporate clients.’ Link: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/how-ai-is-reshaping-city-law-firms-2q2hlfblb

‘This study investigates the impact of anthropomorphic design features in enterprise generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems on employee engagement and knowledge collection. Leveraging a two-study approach, we examine how high versus low levels of anthropomorphism in GenAI avatars affect employees’ interactions with these systems. Two experimental studies were conducted. Results indicate that high anthropomorphism enhances…

‘Spotify has revealed it removed 75m spam tracks from its platform over the past year as artificial intelligence tools increase the ability of fraudsters to create fake music.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/25/spotify-removes-75m-spam-tracks-past-year-ai-increases-ability-make-fake-music

‘While artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in educational settings, its integration into teacher education curricula remains limited. In spring 2023, we surveyed 1,687 preservice teachers at the University of Cologne, Germany, to examine how their self-assessed digital self-efficacy relates to their attitudes towards and use of ChatGPT in education. This is further supported by…

‘AI is making new demands on lawyers but do they need to learn programming?’ Link: https://www.ft.com/content/0b89c694-e481-4e58-b8e5-c63c22a5ff00

‘The early development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the latter half of the twentieth century was marked by limited, hand-crafted systems and fluctuating perceptions of the field’s potential. Early research explored a range of paradigms – including symbolic, neural and probabilistic approaches – constrained by severe hardware and data limitations. Key technological advances, such as…

‘Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has accused rival OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets in a new lawsuit, the latest in Musk’s legal assault on his former business partner, Sam Altman.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/elon-musk-xai-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit

‘The 22nd edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, released in May, includes a new Rule 18.3 for citing output from generative AI. Critics argue that the new rule “is fundamentally flawed in both conception and execution,” LawSites reports.’ Link: https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/latest-bluebook-has-bonkers-rule-on-citing-to-ai/

‘Italy has become the first EU member state to pass a national artificial intelligence law which secured final parliamentary approval on 17 September 2025 and complements the EU AI Act. This domestic legislation follows on from Italy’s “National AI Strategy” which, already back in 2020, highlighted that an ethical regulatory framework for AI must ensure…

‘This study examines the potential role of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing sentencing inconsistencies within the legal system. While AI has shown promise in a range of legal tasks, its application in sentencing remains controversial due to concerns over transparency, bias, and accountability. A key challenge lies in the complex and opaque manner in which AI systems weigh all…

‘OpenAI will restrict how ChatGPT responds to a user it suspects is under 18, unless that user passes the company’s age estimation technology or provides ID, after legal action from the family of a 16-year-old who killed himself in April after months of conversations with the chatbot.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/17/chatgpt-developing-age-verification-system-to-identify-under-18-users-after-teen-death

‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly changing the way solicitors practice law, offering affordable and scalable solutions for tasks such as analysing cases, legal research and drafting documents. This paper proposes Aura (https://www.auralaw.uk/), an AI-enabled legal assistant, designed to improve efficiency and accessibility of UK legal practice. Aura is based on natural language processing (NLP) and…

‘Google weaving Gemini further into the popular Chrome browser is an inflection point for AI in our software, although some users will still be looking for the “off” switch.’ Link: https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-ai-chrome-browser/

‘The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into legislative drafting offers significant potential to enhance the quality, clarity, and coherence of legal texts while addressing key challenges in the legislative process. This paper explores AI’s role in legislative drafting by examining three main aspects: the foundational principles of proper legislation, the challenges faced by drafters, and…

‘Stanford Law School today [15 September] announced the launch of the Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, or liftlab, to explore how artificial intelligence can reshape legal services—not just to make them faster and cheaper, but better and more widely accessible.’ Link: https://law.stanford.edu/press/stanford-law-unveils-liftlab-a-groundbreaking-ai-initiative-focused-on-the-legal-professions-future/

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‘The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) represents a significant departure from the EU’s traditionally restrained regulatory approach to commercial arbitration. The Act classifies certain use cases of AI in arbitration as potentially “high-risk” and introduces stringent compliance obligations for legal tech providers, arbitral institutions and arbitrators. This article argues that the Act’s application to…

‘Winston Weinberg’s company is making lawyers ‘a lot more productive’, but critics say it offers little more than ChatGPT.’ Link: https://www.ft.com/content/49d00498-9a15-4d26-b10c-938bd7e893c6

‘Legal dispute mediation plays a crucial role in resolving civil disputes, yet its empirical study is limited by privacy constraints and complex multivariate interactions. To address this limitation, we present AgentMediation, the first LLM-based agent framework for simulating dispute mediation. It simulates realistic mediation processes grounded in real-world disputes and enables controlled experimentation on key…

‘Studying legal history is crucial for understanding both the past and present of technology regulation, as past societies confronted challenges similar to those we face today. However, the scarcity of such studies in the existing literature highlights the need for a deeper exploration of how technology has historically shaped the legal framework.’ Link: https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jiplp/jpaf054/8246693

‘Although ‘in-the-wild’ technology testing provides an important opportunity to collect evidence about the performance of new technologies in real world deployment environments, such tests may themselves cause harm and wrongfully interfere with the rights of others. This paper critically examines real-world AI testing, focusing on live facial recognition technology (FRT) trials by European law enforcement…

‘Google DeepMind claims it has made a “historic” artificial intelligence breakthrough akin to the Deep Blue computer defeating Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997 and an AI beating a human Go champion in 2016.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/17/google-deepmind-claims-historic-ai-breakthrough-in-problem-solving

‘The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) has referred a barrister to the Bar Standards Board for presenting a bogus court decision generated using the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool.’ Link: https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/litigation-and-enforcement/400-litigation-news/62258-barrister-referred-to-bar-standards-board-for-using-false-ai-derived-precedents-in-court