Mark Deem

2 months ago | lexology.com | Mark Deem |Ted Shapiro

The European Commission has published Guidelines on prohibited AI practices, as defined by the EU AI Act. Article 5 of the Act prohibits the “placing on the EU market, putting into service, or use of certain AI systems for manipulative, exploitative, social control or surveillance practices, which by their inherent nature violate fundamental rights and Union values”.

2 months ago | lexology.com | Mark Deem |Ted Shapiro

The European Commission has announced that it will shelve the much-beleaguered AI Liability Directive. The Directive was first proposed in September 2022, and it sought to adapt non-contractual civil liability rules to address artificial intelligence. As it was put at the time, “current national liability rules, in particular based on fault, are not suited to handling liability claims for damage caused by AI-enabled products and services.

Oct 28, 2024 | lexology.com | Mark Deem

The Government has launched a new ‘Regulatory Innovation Office’ (“RIO”) within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, which aims to “reduce the burden of red tape and speed up access to new technologies that improve our daily lives”. According to the Government press release, this will be achieved by the RIO supporting regulators to update regulation, speed up approvals, and ensure different regulators are better able to work together.

Oct 28, 2024 | lexology.com | Mark Deem |Rachel Alexander

Thousands of members of the creative industries, among them numerous well-known authors, musicians and actors, have signalled their opposition to the unauthorised use of creative works to train AI models. The artists have signed the ‘Statement on AI Training’ which simply states that “the unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted”.

Sep 2, 2024 | lexology.com | Mark Deem

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Lord Ponsonby, has written on behalf of the Government to members of the House of Lords to address questions raised during the Second Reading of the Arbitration Bill. As we have commented elsewhere, the Arbitration Bill – which sought to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission and update the Arbitration Act 1996 – was introduced by the previous government in November 2023.