UK's House of Lords Publishes Landmark Report on AI Impact Artificial Lawyer

The UK's House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, has finally published its major report into the impact, regulation and use of AI, called'AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?' after taking evidence from multiple experts across many sectors, including from the legal industry. For those who have been following the debate closely it will come as no surprise that the report understandably sticks to the main themes of jobs and ethics. Although'the law' appears many times as a subject related to liability, transparency and ethics, there is little about the actual business of law and AI, or the New Wave of legal technology that is driven by AI tech such as NLP and machine learning. Although, again, there are references to the need for transparency in any algorithms that may help make decisions related to a defendant in a court case. The Lords committee also have asked the UK's Law Commission to review whether existing laws on liability cover errors created by an AI system.