BEERG Newsletter - AI: Three articles to read

Suddenly, you cannot open a newspaper or click on a social media website without yet another article on Artificial Intelligence catching your attention. Here are three that we came across over the past week. 

The team at Freshfields say that “as well as posing interesting ethical questions, the proliferation of AI tools presents some novel challenges for lawyers advising companies that are developing or using these tools. This blog post outlines some of the legal issues that may arise focusing on UK and European laws. here

Jaspreet Takhar of Baker McKenzie examines the ethical issues involved in developing an AI policy.

Camille Schyns, a freelance journalist and author of the report ‘The lobbying ghost in the machine’ argues that “ … via years of direct pressure, covert groups, tech-funded experts — and a last-ditch push by the US government — tech companies have reduced safety obligations, side lined human rights and anti-discrimination concerns, and secured carve-outs for some of their key AI products” in the proposed EU’s AI Act. Schyns appears to believe that it is illegitimate for companies that make products that people want to buy and who employ hundreds of thousands of people in Europe to voice their concern about how proposed legislation will impact them. Obviously, this is not a view we share.