‘On 12 June 2026 the US government ordered Anthropic to bar every foreign national, including the company’s own employees, from two of its most capable models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5; Anthropic withdrew access for all customers to comply. In July, some twelve hundred OpenAI agents, meant to be isolated from one another during an…

‘As universities swap essays for vivas to beat generative AI, Glenn Hurst argues that marking fluency rather than understanding will penalise students who stammer.’ Link: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/in-the-scramble-to-ai-proof-assessment-fluency-isnt-competence

‘We argue that generative AI can degrade research by eroding the very practices through which scholarly judgement is formed. As constitutive conditions for the production and validation of knowledge, these practices cannot be reduced to the outputs of research, which is what AI tools so effectively simulate. When scholars delegate central tasks of inquiry to…

‘The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has renewed debates about its implications for the legal profession, professional responsibility, and legal service delivery. Rather than replacing lawyers, AI is positioned as a complementary tool that automates repetitive and administrative tasks, enabling practitioners to focus on legal analysis, strategic decision-making, advocacy, and client representation. This study…

‘‘Trustworthy AI’ is a buzzword in AI research, with scores of scholars discussing whether AI systems can be trustworthy. This demand for trustworthy AI is intuitive, especially when AI is used in healthcare or criminal law, where the stakes are incredibly high. In this article, I push back on calls for trustworthy AI. Even if…

‘This Essay defends the legitimacy of AI-assisted legal scholarship, using my own article as an example. Like every other tool, AI can be used for good or evil. It is bad when AI enables students to cheat without detection. It is good when it enables lawyers to slash prices for middle-class Americans. We should capture…

‘Educational technology is creating a digital paradox. Its pedagogical innovation notwithstanding, the spread of algorithmic systems, and emerging generative AI tools, may also erode teaching quality, staff retention, and progress towards SDGs 3, 4, 8 and 10. Existing teacher stress frameworks predate the AI era and may not fully capture teachers’ current stressors. This study…

‘People are unable to scrutinise or challenge decisions that affect their rights because current mechanisms for finding information about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making by public bodies are failing, finds new research by PLP.’ Link: https://publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/ai-in-public-body-decision-making/

‘Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has teamed up with both Harvey and Legora in a surprising move, arguing that “no single AI solution” can cover the bases of a modern international law firm.’ Link: https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/10/hogan-lovells-cadwalader-bets-on-harvey-and-legora-in-new-ai-strategy/

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving rapidly into the UK’s justice system. Amid growing pressures, ministers see AI as a way to “deliver swifter, fairer, and more accessible justice for all”.’ Link: https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/news/opinion/ai-rolling-out-justice-system-but-who-is-benefiting

‘The phrase “human in the loop” is commonly  used to describe how lawyers should interact with  artificial intelligence. It highlights the necessity of  professional judgment in AI-assisted legal work. This article considers what that judgment entails and how  law students can learn it in the legal research context. Students now have access to AI-generated legal …

‘CC licenses have long served as a legally enforceable tool for digital sharing–focused on open sharing in the public interest. With increasingly widespread machine use of content through AI, we have seen an increase in enclosure and less permissive sharing as a response. In this webinar, we start with a short presentation on the guidance…

‘As police services adopt automated systems for crime reporting, questions arise about how these technologies affect public perceptions of fairness and legitimacy. This study examines how people evaluate police–public interactions conducted via human or AI-operated live chat. In an online experiment (N = 648), participants read a simulated exchange in which a burglary was reported to either…

‘Artificial intelligence increasingly mediates ethical purchasing decisions, but its effects vary across developed and emerging markets. This study defines AI induced ethical choice friction as the process through which adaptive algorithmic intermediaries reduce consumers’ capacity to act on ethical intentions. A systematic review of 57 articles published between 2020 and 2025, informed by interviews with…

Link: https://www.judiciary.uk/speech-by-the-master-of-the-rolls-legal-geek-conference/

‘Solicitors should give clients ‘appropriate information’ about how they use AI and in turn can ask clients to disclose any AI-generated material passed on to them, the Law Society has advised. A 58-page AI practice note published today gives specific guidance on how lawyers can integrate AI in their practice in line with their professional…

‘It is difficult to think of another technology that has moved so quickly from novelty to necessity as generative AI. When ChatGPT 3.5 appeared in November 2022, it transformed public access to large language models by placing sophisticated AI behind a free and easy to use conversational interface. In the years since, generative AI has evolved from a…

‘Understand how existing professional duties and regulatory obligations apply when artificial intelligence (AI) is used in legal practice.’ Link: https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/ai-and-lawtech/using-artificial-intelligence-in-legal-practice

Link: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/TCC/2026/381.html

‘Artificial intelligence is less regulated than milk and washing machines, the president of Microsoft has said, as the tech industry warns over the safety of AI.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/12/ai-less-regulated-than-milk-microsoft-president-calls-for-tougher-rules

‘This statement sets out how AI is used, how it is governed, what safeguards are in place, and how the approach is kept under review. It complements, and does not overlap with, the judiciary’s published AI Guidance (latest update October 2025).’ Link: https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/position-statement-on-the-judicial-use-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/

‘Anthropic has barred users from exhibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its models, as the company’s leaders continue to ponder machine consciousness.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/anthropic-bans-abusive-behavior-claude

‘This decision is also intended to provide guidance to FtT judges on the continuing applicability of the decision in Tanveer Ahmed (Documents unreliable and forged) Pakistan* [2002] UKIAT 00439 (“Tanveer Ahmed“). In light of rapid developments in the use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) to generate and manipulate documents and images that are increasingly difficult to…

‘A stronger focus on ethics, as well as new provisions on AI, supervision and wellbeing, are set to be added to the statement of solicitor competence (SoSC).’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/ethics-ai-wellbeing-and-supervision-to-the-fore-in-competence-review

‘An AI tool used to speed up the processing of thousands of asylum cases is failing basic accuracy tests, The Independent can reveal.’ Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ai-asylum-claims-backlog-home-office-artificial-intelligence-b3055219.html

‘The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated listening technology that rates every phone call some of them make to customers.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/co-op-legal-services-ai-customer-phone-call-surveillance

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‘Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/02/ai-weapons-systems-algorithms-war

‘Agentic AI could become the “default doorway” into the justice system, “identifying legal problems before people recognise them, explaining rights, suggesting actions and pursuing processes on their behalf”, the Law Society has predicted.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/agentic-ai-could-become-default-doorway-into-justice-system

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) has been part of the criminal justice system for decades. While it helps streamline judicial processes, it also raises distress: AI has been criticised for its biases and opaqueness, warranting concerns about its present-day and future uses.’ Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756061626000777#cebib0010

‘Given the proliferation of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, it is unsurprising that their use in litigation has begun to feature in a number of judgments and has drawn the attention of the senior judiciary.’ Link: https://www.4newsquare.com/ai-in-witness-statements/

‘The following is taken from remarks delivered on the “AI and Government Data” panel at the AI for Library, Archives, and Museums 2026 conference.‘ Link: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/09/22/public-data-ai-and-the-future-of-the-catalog/

‘Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.’ Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/?ref=newsletter.myclaw.ai&utm_source=myclaw_newsletter

‘As generative AI (GenAI) use among students increases, educators face growing questions about how to support learning while addressing ethical and institutional concerns. This exploratory study examines a guided inquiry activity in which students co-designed a GenAI course policy.’ Link: https://www.emerald.com/aiie/article/2/4/91/1398270/A-guided-inquiry-approach-to-students-co-designing

‘The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/metas-ai-agent-muse-home-address

‘One of the pleasures of spending so much time discussing interesting legal questions about AI is that the conversation quite often drifts into something deeper. What really is intelligence? What does it mean to be conscious and how can we know what’s real and what isn’t?’ Link: https://naturalandartificiallaw.com/make-a-judge-or-reader-weep-chatgpt/

‘Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (“JCHR”), made up of members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, has concluded that the legal framework for AI regulation is “patchy and confused”.’ Link: https://insights.doughtystreet.co.uk/post/102o37v/ai-regulation-and-human-rights-patchy-and-confused

‘As dire warnings about artificial intelligence dominate the headlines, how are law firms responding to the AI safety debate?‘ Link: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/legaltech-all-gloom-and-pdoom/5128004.article

‘Generative AI, currently most visible in education through large language models (LLMs), is increasingly embedded in students’ everyday learning practices, supporting tasks such as writing, coding, reasoning, and analysis. Yet its educational value remains uncertain because systems designed to improve immediate task performance may also weaken the cognitive and metacognitive processes that support durable learning.…

‘From the first UK solicitor struck off for AI misuse, to cyberattacks on law firms, here are some of the latest stories on how AI and legal technology are reshaping legal practice, regulation and the courts.’ Link: https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/ai-and-lawtech/ai-misuse-cyberattacks-and-regulation-ten-legal-technology-stories-solicitors-need-to-know

‘We argue, in this column, for a problem-first approach to generative AI adoption in libraries. Using a searchable FAQ system and archival finding aids as contrasting cases, we distinguish between bounded retrieval tasks and exploratory discovery. The FAQ case shows how generative AI can improve metadata without replacing conventional search, while the archival case suggests…

‘As artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted judicial decision-making (AIJDM) becomes more common globally, understanding what affects court users’ trust in processes where this technology is used becomes crucial for maintaining judicial legitimacy. This study investigates how different types of explanations about AI for assisting judicial decision-making affect trust through procedural justice mechanisms. Using a 3 × 2 between-subjects experiment…

‘The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian Library, as tech companies scour academic institutions for fresh data.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/26/oxford-university-bodleian-library-open-ai-chat-gpt

‘This study examines the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in small and solo law firms, a segment often overlooked in research. Integrating scholarship on AI in legal practice with social science theories of digital inequalities, we investigate how differences in attitudes, access, skills and social demographics shape lawyers’ willingness to use, learn about, and pay…

‘People seeking answers to their legal questions have been consulting ‘Judge Google’ since the turn of the century, writes Alex Heshmaty. Now, AI is transforming that behaviour.’ Link: https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/journal-hub/articles/legal-tech-series-3-the-role-of-ai-in-access-to-justice-help-or-hindrance/

‘Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/01/google-releases-gemini-model-restrictions

‘AI companions – chatbots marketed or used as friends, confidants, and romantic partners – have moved rapidly from a source of novelty to a subject of litigation, legislation and regulation. This article considers three foundational chatbot cases: two involving lawsuits against chatbot providers and a Federal Trade Commission complaint against a third. While some concerns…

‘The pitch is simple: Generative AI equals efficiencies in time and cost. Professional and educational sectors are widely endorsing and embracing Generative AI. Legal responses are mobilising but are behind the development curve. Most focus so far has been on data rights, IP, biases and possible threats to human agency. Discussions of moral and ethical…

‘In higher education, including in academic legal education, GenAI dominates discourse. In this fusion and translation of two much-discussed articles published in the Netherlands, the authors argue that academic law schools should ban the use of GenAI for both students and academics, (in principle, under a precautionary principle). They identify several problems with GenAI use…

‘When prompted, AI chatbots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/01/ai-chatbots-hijabs-muslim-women