MPs and peers say these advanced systems — which I’ll be exploring in next week’s podcast — risk causing widespread and very serious harm, including the capacity to evade effective human control. In the meantime, says the committee’s well-timed report, legislation should ban the use of AI in ways that are inconsistent with respect for human rights, such as subliminal techniques, emotional inference and inappropriate use of profiling or biometric data.
No legislation has been introduced even though the party’s manifesto in 2024 promised that a Labour government would “ensure the safe development and use of AI models by introducing binding regulation on the handful of companies developing the most powerful AI models”. In the King’s speech that year, ministers said they would “seek to establish the appropriate legislation to place requirements on those working to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence models”.
The use of AI by lawyers will be on the agenda of a conference tomorrow being held by the City of London Law Society and the City of London Corporation at Guildhall. Though much of the meeting will be closed to reporters, Colin Passmore KC (hon), chair of the City of London Law Society, was happy to discuss the challenges facing corporate lawyers in an interview for A Lawyer Talks.
Passmore (pictured) told me last week of his concerns about AI, particularly what he regards as its current unreliability. He also responded to some of the ethical concerns emerging from the Post Office scandal that I raised with John Hyde in last week’s episode of A Lawyer Talks.
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