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Irish lawyer Dr Barry Scannell examines a recent trademark case in which ChatGPT represented one of the parties. Good idea: Getting a well-trained lawyer to represent you in a trademark dispute. Bad idea: Having ChatGPT represent you in a trademark dispute.

Denmark's welfare authority risks discriminating against people with disabilities, low-income individuals, migrants, refugees, and marginalised racial groups through its use of AI tools to flag individuals for social benefits fraud investigations, Amnesty International has said in a new report. 

Business leaders forecast massive gains from AI but are delaying implementation due to the ‘ambiguity trap’ created by a changing and fragmented legal and regulatory landscape. According to a survey of 450 business leaders carried out by Dentons, including CEOs, COOs and General Counsel

The Council of Europe has issued recommendations to its 46 member states aimed at ensuring that the use of AI and related digital technologies by prison and probation services respects the human rights and dignity of detainees, probationers, as well as staff. In a recommendation adopted today, the C

The International Bar Association (IBA) has formally endorsed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. The convention is the first international legally binding treaty for the governance of AI. It aims to ensure that activ

AI can help humanitarians gain crucial insights to better monitor and anticipate risks, such as a conflict outbreak or escalation – but deploying systems in this context is not without risks for those affected, a new study warns. AI-supported disaster mapping was used in Mozambique to speed up

Edinburgh-based AI legal assistant platform Wordsmith has raised $5 million (around £3.94m). The seed funding was led by Index Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst and angel investors including Skyscanner founder Gareth Williams.

Meta has delayed plans to train AI tools on content published by Facebook and Instagram users in the EU following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The social media giant said last Monday that its generative AI features need to be trained on European data to reflect "the div

UK lawyers tend to believe that the legal profession should self-regulate its use of AI, a survey suggests. A survey commissioned by Thomson Reuters found that 48 per cent of lawyers in UK firms and 50 per cent of UK in-house lawyers support self-regulation, with 36 per cent of lawyers in firms and

A sex offender has been banned from using generative AI tools in what is believed to be the first restriction of its kind in England and Wales. Anthony Dover, 48, has been ordered not to "use, visit or access... AI creating tools", including the image generation software Stable Diffusion, as part of

Edinburgh Law School’s Professor Burkhard Schafer is participating in a 10-month project led by the University of Strathclyde that aims to help researchers and their institutions make informed decisions on how they use generative AI. The project has received £100,000 in funding from REPH

Digital watermarks combined with AI will speed up the resolution of legal cases about copyright infringements, a new study says. The technology would enhance the assessment of data about potential breaches and make it easier for lawsuits to be be brought. It will also lead to more evidence being ava

The Supreme Court has upheld decisions rejecting an attempt to allow AI to be named an inventor on a patent application. Dr Stephen Thaler had tried to have his AI, named Dabus, recognised as the inventor of a food container and a flashing light beacon.

Judges can use generative AI technology like ChatGPT to assist in producing judgments but should not use them for legal research, landmark new guidance in England and Wales sets out. The new judicial guidance on AI states: "Judges are not generally obliged to describe the research or preparatory wor

The European Union has recorded a major milestone on the road to establishing the world's first comprehensive legal framework to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Following lengthy negotiations, the European Parliament and Council on Saturday reached a political agreement on the AI A