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An independent review of new policing technologies, chaired at Edinburgh Napier University, has suggested statutory codes of practice could be considered to provide greater clarity and safeguards around the future use of live facial recognition and certain artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

James Milliken of Northern Ireland law firm Carson McDowell reports that we are beginning to see artificial intelligence take on complex tasks such as assisting lawyers with drafting contracts. Artificial intelligence (AI) plays an ever-increasing role in our everyday lives. It is used in Face ID an

A multi-million-dollar project to protect a person’s online identity is enlisting help from a team of University of Dundee experts. Experts from the university’s Centre for Argument Technology are to develop software capable of detecting and disguising trademark linguistic patterns used

Lawyers in Malaysia have branded a move by courts to use artificial intelligence unconstitutional. In a pilot scheme on the island of Borneo, AI is being used to assist judges in sentencing drug dealers and rapists.

A guide for EU lawyers and law firms on the use of artificial intelligence in legal practice will be published at an event in Brussels tomorrow. The guide is the result of two years of work in the framework of the AI4Lawyers project co-funded by the Justice programme of the European Union.

The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools used in the justice system without proper oversight, particularly by the police, has serious implications for human rights and civil liberties, according to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee. In its report Technology rules? The a

Global business leaders have concerns about decisions and omissions made by artificial intelligence (AI) systems despite their wide adoption in the private sector, a survey by Dentons has found. The vast majority (81 per cent) of businesses cited personal data protection as a significant concern, ye

The English Court of Appeal has upheld a decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office to reject two patent applications designating an artificial intelligence designed to create patentable inventions as the inventor. Dr Stephen Thaler, who filed the applications in 2018, argued that his AI, the D

Lawyers could use “performance-enhancing medication” in the future to maintain parity with machines, according to a new report from the Law Society of England and Wales. Images of the Future Worlds Facing the Legal Profession 2020-2030 also suggests that artificial intelligence could hal

Burness Paull's Callum Sinclair is among a number of experts appointed by the Scottish government to help Scotland become a leader in the development and use of trustworthy, ethical and inclusive artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The Scottish AI Alliance Leadership Circle will work to deliv

Patrick Penninckx, head of the information society department at the Council of Europe conducted a webinar entitled Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights this week. It was organised by the European Law Students Association (ELSA) as part of a series of webinars on law and technology. The spe

Computer algorithms must be regulated to ensure the digital world is not lawless, Supreme Court justice Lord Sales has said. Delivering the Sir Henry Brooke Lecture at the British and Irish Legal Information Institute, Lord Sales called for the creation of an expert commission to counter the “

Iain Mitchell QC clears some of the confusion surrounding artificial intelligence ahead of the AI Beyond the Hype event in Edinburgh this month. In October, 2017, Saudi Arabia conferred citizenship on Sophia. The puzzling thing is that Sophia is a robot, even more human-looking than the archety

Leading experts in the field of artificial intelligence are heading to Edinburgh for an international conference.

Human beings should always know if they are directly interacting with another human or an artificial intelligence (AI), a report highlighting a series of "critical concerns" about future AI systems has warned. The report from the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI listed a number of