Should artificial intelligence be regulated? Legal solutions UK & Ireland blog

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making significant waves across the globe, with experts predicting that it will increasingly change and reshape the way people live their daily lives. AI is also likely to shake up the legal industry; triggering a profound shift in the delivery of legal services. However, with such potential and power to drive seismic change to ordinary life and professional services, it has led to some debate over whether AI should be regulated. Professor Sylvie Delacroix, of the University of Birmingham, spoke to Thomson Reuters' Legal Solutions UK & Ireland Blog about her views on AI and the call for regulation. How significant is artificial intelligence and its role within society? The most significant development today is the extent to which we are capable of gathering and exploiting data to develop new kinds of knowledge which radically transform the way we live, for better or for worse.