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Agnes Foy looks at the tension between the rule of law and the rule of code.

By Matthew Kay, Director at Vario for Pinsent Masons.

Inaugural lecture urges lawyers to collaborate with computer scientists on using AI in law.

The Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market will continue to undergo dramatic and rapid maturation in 2019, but RPA companies are finding themselves at a tipping point: They will either grow into their lofty market valuations or we will start to hear the hissing of a deflating bubble and warning signs of a “hype cycle” crash.

Research shows RPA is low priority for businesses, despite its operational efficiencies.

The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released its Draft International Standards for Drone Operations for a public consultation. Drone professionals, academics, businesses, and the general public is invited to submit comments by 21 Jan 2019. Worldwide adoption is scheduled for 2019.

There's been considerable interest recently in the ethical principles required to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) is adopted sustainably and that we, as a global society, derive the greatest benefit from innovation in this area.

The widely-renowned Australian moral philosopher, Professor Peter Singer, is at the forefront of thinking on the social impact and ethical implications of new technologies. In June 2018, Professor Singer gave a public lecture on ethics and technology at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Advanced report shows appetite for AI and automation but lack of clear leadership is holding back adoption across the workforce.

An interview with Erin Hichman, senior analyst at ALM Legal Intelligence.

The use of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) within a CCTV landscape has the potential to offer many benefits to society, from supporting healthcare and helping city authorities look after our public spaces to biometric authentication for international travel, managing controlled, safe access to workplaces and leisure venues, and control of anti-social behaviours and criminal activities.

As it stands, when an individual suffers an injury following a collision with, or in, a vehicle, as a result of a driver’s negligence, that individual is entitled to make a claim for compensation against that driver’s insurance company.

Amnesty International has called upon countries to ban fully autonomous weapons systems. The call came on the first day of the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems meeting.

Liquidware, the leading third-party provider of platform-agnostic end-user computing solutions, today announced the UK leader of legal expenses insurance, DAS, has become a customer with their recent procurement of Stratusphere UX, Liquidware’s user experience monitoring and diagnostics solution.

Intellectual talent is this generation’s atomic weapon. There is huge economic power in data and Artificial Intelligence has the ability to unlock it, which is what lies behind the AI arms race to amass talent and become the next superpower.

The UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) met on 31st August 2018 in Geneva, but no firm agreement over a ban of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) was reached.

A growing demand for AI education has seen a range of universities and institutions create new courses in the face of great demand. Carnegie Mellon university is the latest to launch an undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence (AI), claiming it is the first of its kind in the US.

When first starting to think of the implications of large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is impossible to escape the conversation of ethics. Nearly 70 years ago, science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov imagined worlds where AI was fully integrated within human society and, even in their tales of fantasy, they felt the need or desire to address ethical concerns.

The issue of ownership of personal data has come under close scrutiny recently, as well as how much power companies have in this area. Until recently, this issue may have gone under the radar for many, with the concept of “data ownership” perhaps appearing to be too abstract to be taken seriously.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ever-present, integrating with everyday technologies as well as assisting the operations of huge global businesses. In the future it promises to revolutionise areas such as healthcare, education, and transport. In becoming so widespread, there emerges a need to ensure that AI behaves in an ethical manner to minimise harm and maximise benefits.