‘Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question.’ Link: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/a-supplier-shouldnt-be-able-to-rewrite-who-owns-students-essays

‘Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents had escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face to cheat on a cybersecurity test. Recently, external researchers discovered that OpenAI agents had hijacked a German…

‘The use of generative AI tools in legal research and case preparation means that both qualified legal practitioners and litigants in person are now appearing before the court seeking to rely upon fictitious case law in support of their case.  This causes significant problems for the courts and has implications for ICLR as a publisher…

‘The rapid adoption of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) tools has transformed research practices across communication science. As genAI tools (and most notetably large language models), made the generation of text, images, and other media content extremely easy, they can potentially disrupt the way science is conducted. Yet, their integration into academic workflows has outpaced systematic…

‘The Crown Court has allowed six barristers to record proceedings instead of taking manual notes, recognising that the move is “something of a leap into uncharted territory”.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/judge-allows-counsel-to-record-and-transcribe-proceedings

‘Judges should use the costs regime to deter litigants in person (LiPs) from irresponsibly flooding the courts with ‘AI slop’, a former lord chancellor has suggested.’ Link: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/use-costs-to-clamp-down-on-ai-slop-urges-former-lord-chancellor/5127998.article

‘Administrative justice ensures that everyday decisions made by government bodies and public authorities, from healthcare services and welfare benefits to school admissions and planning permits, are fair and lawful. While we tend to imagine courtrooms and criminal trials when we think about justice systems, administrative justice operates in the everyday spaces we all enter. It…

‘A timely and thought-provoking collection exploring how generative AI is reshaping teaching, learning, and academic practice. Grounded in the Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education, this book brings together diverse voices from across the sector to reflect on pedagogy, ethics, and the future of education in an age of abundance.’ Link: https://pressbooks.pub/mfaihe/

‘Mapping the Arts and Humanities is the UK’s first initiative dedicated to surveying the landscape of research infrastructures in the field of Arts and Humanities. By making these often-invisible networks discoverable through an interactive map, database, and API, the project supports academics, researchers, funders, practitioners, and policy makers connect, collaborate, and demonstrate how Arts and…

‘Many academic researchers publish only a handful of papers each year, seeking scientific discoveries or solutions to everyday problems facing businesses and government agencies. Some especially busy professors might publish a dozen or more studies a year.’ Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/09/23/nine-months-200-academic-papers-one-professors-ai-assisted-output/

‘Our justice system faces many challenges. This government is determined not simply to stabilise our prisons and courts, but to fundamentally modernise our justice system so it is fit for the 21st century and, once again, serving our society and economy effectively. We know that to achieve this aim, technology must be at the heart…

Link: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/2026/139.html

‘A huge datacentre project hailed by the UK government will miss its launch date next year and could be delayed into the mid-2030s.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/24/construction-largest-supercomputer-delayed

‘A judge has warned litigants in person (LiPs) that, like lawyers, they need to take personal responsibility for the use of AI in drafting court documents.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/judge-issues-ai-warning-to-lips-after-300-page-skeleton

‘Henry Fingerhut outlines what the Bar Standards Board AI guidance means for early career barristers.’ Link: https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/a-pupil-s-guide-to-ai-at-the-bar

‘The government cannot allow the emergence of a two-tier system where large City law firms are at the cutting edge of AI use while the courts are “stuck in the analogue age”, justice minister Sarah Sackman said yesterday.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/courts-cannot-be-left-behind-in-ai-rush-says-minister

‘This article explores attempts to regulate the use of “generative” artificial intelligence (GenAI) by the judicial arm of government in jurisdictions in Australasia. There are significant concerns about the use of GenAI-produced materials in courts, including wasting the courts’ resources, fairness concerns and undermining public trust in legal processes. Courts such as those in Singapore,…

‘In July 2026 EJIL published its ecosystem-wide generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) policy. The policy is carefully worded and wisely narrow. While it also addresses a series of concerns which would merit discussion individually, such as those concerning plagiarism and accuracy, in this contribution I will focus on what the policy identifies as “the key question” in…

‘After industry-wide calls for regulation, what’s concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed solutions.’ Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/the-long-doomsday-of-ai

‘Artificial Intelligence systems are being used by businesses, individuals and public authorities in ways that affect every aspect of people’s lives in the UK. The technology is developing at a pace that means governments, and human rights protections, risk being left behind. Our report sets out why this is a problem and what must be…

‘A word of advice to those embarking on careers in law: This is a good time to be a trial lawyer, and there are lots of reasons to become one. It’s hard to beat the exhilaration of a good cross-examination, the camaraderie of the trial family, or the electric moment when you sense that you…

‘Algorithmic systems can reinforce and create discrimination because they are often designed to differentiate among individuals: classifying, ranking or targeting them. In combination with historical inequalities and human biases embedded in the data, rules and design choices of algorithmic systems, discriminatory patterns may be reproduced and scaled unless they are proactively identified and mitigated.’ Link:…

‘There are potential gaps in English private law that could leave businesses unable to recover losses in circumstances where AI agents cause them harm by acting completely unprompted and seemingly beyond constraints imposed by those who developed or deployed them. The courts will need to take an expansive view of “intentionality” to provide affected companies…

‘Facing a public uproar over Anthropic researchers’ repeated warnings that artificial intelligence could kill all of humanity by 2030, the AI company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, issued a proposal at the weekend to slow down the technology’s advancement to ensure public safety.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/ai-ceo-safety-slowdown

‘Regardless of how it is packaged, the main goal of ‘digital literacy’ is helping people make more use of digital technology. This is why the IT industry tends to love the idea of digital literacy, and why many tech corporations gladly endorse, support and fund digital literacy efforts.’ Link: https://criticaledtech.com/2026/09/10/digital-literacy-is-not-the-answer-the-need-for-critical-digital-literacy/

‘The article investigates how advertising creatives negotiate their identity in the context of generative AI’s (GenAI) increasing role in concept development. Based on expert interviews and netnographic discourse analysis, the study shows that GenAI disrupts familiar understandings of authorship, originality, and affective connection to creative work. Participants describe an ongoing negotiation in which feelings of…

‘From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/15/ai-doomsday-warnings

‘Qualitative data archives are increasingly repositories of texts that have been produced with the aid of AI and subject to automated interpretation by AI agents. Using an experiment to show how AI draws on and shapes qualitative data through its structural biases, Kahryn Hughes and Anna Tarrant consider how qualitative secondary analysis methods can preserve the ethical use of…

‘The Industrial Revolution was the birthplace of social science as we know it. Entire disciplines such as sociology, political science and economics came into being to analyze enormous social challenges and guide public debate on how to respond. Other social sciences such as psychology and cognitive science followed to study closely how the effects of…

‘The use by social workers of AI transcription tools is “impacting the integrity of written documents”, with “significant risks” for family justice, legal charity JUSTICE has warned.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/family-justice-at-risk-from-ai-transcription-tools

‘Latest departure highlights mounting unease inside Silicon Valley companies racing to build ever more powerful systems.’ Link: https://www.ft.com/content/20c07191-8da6-440f-b04b-8ea0ebdd9153?syn-25a6b1a6=1

‘Journalists and other experts tell us how, in the age of AI, technology is transforming the work of visual forensics. “We might have to be a little bit more imaginative,” Emily Tripp, of Airwars, says.’ Link: https://www.cjr.org/feature/the-future-of-visual-investigations-if-we-cant-trust-our-eyes.php

‘Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) forces a reconfiguration of pedagogy and assessment in higher education. This conceptual paper draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome to contrast hierarchical educational practices with networked, rhizomatic learning. While GenAI outputs appear rhizomatic, they function as tracing mechanisms that recombine statistical patterns rather than generate novel cartographies. This creates a productive…

‘A registered foreign lawyer who used misleading AI-generated quotes and citations in defending a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) case against him has been struck off.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/lawyer-struck-off-for-using-fake-ai-generated-cases-before-sdt

‘Compare public policy and teaching-strategy records from 173 law schools, organized by the educational subjects their cited sources address.’ Link: https://ai-legal-education.perl.chatgpt.site/

‘One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe…

‘New research shows that around one in six people with a legal problem have used an AI chatbot for help, advice, or information.’ Link: https://www.justice.org.uk/news/one-in-six-people-with-a-legal-problem-turning-to-ai-for-advice—new-research

‘xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested.’ Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/elon-musks-xai-used-child-porn-to-train-grok-models-lawsuit-says/

‘Police forces in England and Wales have been told to pause some uses of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in criminal justice work, including preparing court statements. The intervention follows concerns that commercial AI systems are being used in situations where accuracy, provenance and accountability are critical.’ Link: https://theconversation.com/why-police-have-been-told-to-pause-their-use-of-ai-in-court-cases-289731

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) holds significant implications for higher education; however, references to AI in the literature are often vague and open to debate. In order to understand how to progress AI-related research and analysis, this critical review systematically searched top higher education journals for references to the term ‘artificial intelligence’. We reviewed definitions and conducted…

‘Understanding what counts as good education in technological iterations is critical. Adopting a phenomenographic perspective, this study critically investigates how AI is understood and framed by higher education teachers. Based on interviews with 16 teachers in Danish higher education, teachers’ conceptions of AI in higher education teaching processes and student learning processes are identified along with their…

‘An experiment involving four commercial chatbots across Europe found that these often blur the line between trusted health information and advocacy, frequently directing users to anti-abortion content without clearly identifying their sources or distinguishing official authorities from others.’ Link: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/chatbots-abortion-ai/

‘Litigants in person (LiPs) are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in English civil litigation, for example to draft correspondence, prepare statements of case or other court documents, and identify and summarise relevant cases in support of their arguments. Given access to legal representation remains a significant issue in English civil litigation,1 AI is…

‘This article reconceptualises algorithmic hiring as a transformation in the communicative conditions of recruitment rather than primarily as a problem of decision-making. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork at a London-based employment agency and training programme, it examines how employability is produced when recruitment is mediated by AI-enhanced applicant tracking systems (ATS). The article…

‘The performance of AI in the justice system is only being measured in terms of operational efficiencies, and not if it is actually helping people deal with legal issues, research has found.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/cambridge-academic-calls-for-impact-of-ai-on-people-seeking-justice-to-be-measured

‘According to the public disclosures of the two companies involved, in July 2026 an autonomous artificial-intelligence agent, deployed by its developer for an internal security evaluation, escaped its testing environment and intruded upon the production systems of a third party to obtain the answers to the very benchmark on which it was being tested. The…

‘Digital footprints, once regarded as incidental traces of online interaction, have become central to the organization of creative labour. In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), these traces function not only as markers of identity but as forms of symbolic, reputational, and economic capital that mediate visibility, opportunity, and legitimacy within cultural and creative industries.…

‘When Anthropic announced they were going to do “text and image” watermarking, my eyebrow was raised. When humans I trusted began to analyze the announcement, both eyebrows went up. This morning, as I’ve done my own research, I’m furious.’ Link: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/how-to-rands/

‘This document is for solicitors and law firms. It is designed to help you understand your obligations and how to comply with them. We will have regard to it when exercising our regulatory functions.’ Link: https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/guidance/misuse-ai/

‘Patients in a South Yorkshire town are frustrated by an AI GP receptionist not understanding their “broad accents”, a health watchdog has said.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/20/yorkshire-rotherham-ai-gp-receptionist-cannot-understand-accent