‘Transparency and explainability are often considered critical to the development and implementation of responsible AI. In an era increasingly dominated by algorithmic decision-making, this study wants to better understand how principles like transparency and explainability are specifically translated into practices at the BBC. For this study, 22 expert interviews were conducted in 2023 to investigate…

‘An immigration barrister was found by a judge to be using AI to do his work for a tribunal hearing after citing cases that were “entirely fictitious” or “wholly irrelevant”.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/16/barrister-found-to-have-used-ai-to-prepare-for-hearing-after-citing-fictitious-cases

‘The latest version of ChatGPT has produced more harmful answers to some prompts than an earlier iteration of the AI chatbot, in particular when asked about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, digital campaigners have said.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/14/chatgpt-upgrade-giving-more-harmful-answers-than-previously-tests-find

‘Police are getting a boost from artificial intelligence, with algorithms now able to draft police reports in minutes. The technology promises to make police reports more accurate and comprehensive, as well as save officers time.’ Link: https://theconversation.com/concerns-about-ai-written-police-reports-spur-states-to-regulate-the-emerging-practice-267410

‘Italian news publishers are calling for an investigation into Google’s AI Overviews, arguing that the search engine’s AI-generated summaries feature is a “traffic killer” that threatens their survival.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/16/google-ai-overviews-italian-news-publishers-demand-investigation

‘Boris Johnson has admitted he “loves” AI and ChatGPT, and revealed that he uses it while writing his books.’ Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-books-chatgpt-ai-b2847101.html

‘Pupils fear that using artificial intelligence is eroding their ability to study, with many complaining it makes schoolwork “too easy” and others saying it limits their creativity and stops them learning new skills, according to new research.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/15/pupils-fear-ai-eroding-study-ability-research

‘A Quebec man has been ordered to pay C$5,000 (US$3,562) for submitting artificial intelligence hallucinations as part of his legal defense, a move the judge warned was “highly reprehensible” and threatened to undermine integrity in the legal system.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/canada-ai-hallucinations-legal-defense

‘The debate on the role of artificial intelligence in judicial decision-making must begin now, the master of the rolls said today. Addressing the annual Legal Geek networking event, Sir Geoffrey Vos said that, despite early scepticism, lawyers and the judiciary are now ‘piling in’ to find uses for the technology – which he stressed was…

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) “has its limitations”, an employment tribunal judge has told a man who used it in a claim against collapsed law firm Axiom Ince.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/ai-has-its-limits-tribunal-tells-ex-axiom-ince-employee

‘In June 2025, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights released a landmark report titled “Artificial Intelligence Procurement and Deployment: Ensuring Alignment with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” (A/HRC/59/53). The report warns that the expanding use of AI systems by both governments and private actors often proceeds without adequate attention to…

‘Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely to build a whole fake persona …’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps

‘AI developers in the EU are to get help with signposting the systems and models they offer amidst a push by policymakers to drive AI adoption in the trading bloc.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/ai-first-approach-eu-strategies

‘The market for legal technology is booming, fuelled by artificial intelligence, which is automating tasks from drafting contracts to providing initial legal opinions.’ Link: https://www.ft.com/content/00ea7657-9f5c-45d5-9230-b6fc638d03e4

‘As artificial intelligence aspires to reshape many aspects of daily life, including research and education, the same question is being asked: Will libraries survive? The answer is not only yes, but that libraries are more important than ever. Far from becoming obsolete, libraries are essential to guiding society and its citizens through this transformation, ensuring that…

‘Artificial intelligence is driving a new conversation about its impact on the workforce, specifically its potential to automate tasks and replace humans across many professions. This ongoing discussion, fueled by both excitement over technological advancements and anxiety about job displacement, has prompted critical debates and examinations of how AI will integrate into and transform various…

‘When Chief Justice Andrew Bell started practising as a lawyer in 1995 urgent documents were communicated via fax, invoices were noted in a paper spiral bound notebook and unreported cases could only be found in hard copy at the library. His laptop wasn’t even connected to the internet’ Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/artificial-intelligence-law-robot-legal-judge-jury-ai/105545900

‘The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (‘AI Act’) delegates key regulatory functions to harmonised socio-technical standards developed by private bodies under the New Legislative Framework (‘NLF’). While this promises efficiency and flexibility, it raises legitimacy concerns – especially given the AI Act’s fundamental rights objectives. This article critically examines the legal basis and governance structure of…

‘The Dutch privacy regulator has urged the country’s users of social media platform LinkedIn to disable the platform’s AI settings to avoid their data being used to train models.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/dutch-privacy-warning-linkedin-ai

‘OpenAI launched the latest iteration of its artificial intelligence-powered video generator on Tuesday, adding a social feed that allows people to share their realistic videos.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/openai-sora-violence-racism

‘The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report 2024 lists the use of misinformation and disinformation to further widen societal and political divides as the top serious global risk in the coming two years. More than half the population of the world, in more than 70 countries, will participate in elections in 2024, including countries…

‘Research carried out by the National Workload Action Group (NWAG) has found that administrative pressures, poor digital infrastructure, and a limited access to effective reflective supervision are contributing to burnout and high turnover among social workers.’ Link: https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/child-protection/392-children-protection-news/62446-national-workload-action-group-calls-for-national-guidance-on-use-of-ai-in-children-s-social-care

‘OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and controls.’ Link: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09-19-oxford-becomes-first-uk-university-offer-chatgpt-edu-all-staff-and-students

‘Sylvia Noland asserted 25 causes of action against her former employer, including claims for wrongful termination, PAGA and other Labor Code violations, breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional distress, etc. The employer filed a successful motion for summary judgment, which resulted in dismissal of the case. In the appellate briefing plaintiff’s counsel filed, “nearly…

‘‘I think you’re testing me’: Anthropic’s new AI model asks testers to come clean.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/01/anthropic-ai-model-claude-sonnet-asks-if-it-is-being-tested

‘When you don’t have the money for a lawyer to represent you in a court case, even judges can understand the temptation to get free help from anywhere – including tapping into generative artificial intelligence (AI).’ Link: https://theconversation.com/more-people-are-using-ai-in-court-not-a-lawyer-it-could-cost-you-money-and-your-case-264340?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=linkedinbutton

‘Humans are at the centre of the AI revolution. Helen Margetts and Cosmina Dorobantu make the case that AI needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science – the study of humans and their systems of organisation. At the same time, AI can help revolutionise social science, much like it has the natural sciences.’…

‘t is one of the most chilling images of the Holocaust: a bespectacled Nazi soldier trains a pistol at the head of a resigned man kneeling in a suit before a pit full of corpses. German troops encircle the scene.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/historian-uses-ai-to-help-identify-nazi-in-notorious-holocaust-image

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping and disrupting a wide range of sectors. It now occupies the centre of countries’ industrial strategies, playing a critical role in driving innovation, improving competitiveness, and creating opportunities for economic growth. As AI continues to evolve – particularly with the emergence of generative AI – it…

‘Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/artificial-intelligence-personhood

‘In September 2025, the General Division of the High Court of Singapore delivered one of the most important decisions to date on the use of artificial intelligence in legal practice. The case of Tajudin bin Gulam Rasul and another v Suriaya bte Haja Mohideen [2025] SGHCR 33 addressed the professional duties of advocates and solicitors…

‘Earlier this month, an appeals court in California issued a blistering decision and record $10,000 fine against a lawyer who submitted a brief in which “nearly all of the legal quotations in plaintiff’s opening brief, and many of the quotations in plaintiff’s reply brief, are fabricated” through the use of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.…

‘On September 29, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (“”), making California the first state to require public, standardized safety disclosures from developers of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models.’ Link: https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/blogs/wilmerhale-privacy-and-cybersecurity-law/20251001-transparency-in-frontier-artificial-intelligence-act-sb-53-california-requires-new-standardized-ai-safety-disclosures

‘This article explores the transformational potential of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (genAI) – large language models (LLMs), chatbots, and AI-driven smart assistants yet to emerge – to reshape human cognition, memory, and creativity. First, the paper investigates the potential of genAI tools to enable a new form of human-computer co-remembering, based on prompting…

‘The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/01/artificial-intelligence-em-dashes-ai-stealing-my-livelihood

‘A judge has used artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise documents and help him produce his ruling.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/judge-says-he-used-ai-to-summarise-documents-for-ruling

‘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