AI is increasingly at the forefront for the insurance sector, as methods to tackle fraud, manage claims and improve customer service are developed. In terms of how these developments are addressed in the contracts that underpin such arrangements there are significant issues to bear in mind.
Contracts involving AI still
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After years of intense negotiation, EU stakeholders have finally reached political agreement on the long-awaited EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“EU AI Act“), which was first published by the European Commission (“EC“) on 21 April 2021. Following the final trilogues, the Council of the EU released the
Continue Reading Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments under the EU AI Act: Who, what and how?
The sci-fi fascination with AI is well established, long in the tooth and a lazy way of looking at the opportunities (and moreover the threats) presented by AI. But perhaps these once-fantastical ideas are rapidly becoming technological reality. That legislators, including the UK’s House of Lords, are looking seriously at
Continue Reading Building a smarter smartbomb: The Government responds to the House of Lords AI in Weapon Systems Committee
On 2nd February 2024 the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee (HoL) published its report on large language models (LLMs).
That report covered a variety of topics, with attention on two in particular:
While much attention has been paid to the finalisation of the EU’s AI Act in recent weeks, developments in AI continue at a frenetic rate. On 2nd February 2024 the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee (HoL) published its report on large language models (LLMs
Continue Reading Who’s been regulating my AI?: Goldilocks and the House of Lords Report on LLMs and Generative AI
There are a multitude of cases around the world at present regarding AI created works and copyright infringement. Various of them emanate from the US, with the claimants (ranging from high profile celebrities to large publishers) alleging that their copyrighted works were used to train LLMs without permission in a
Continue Reading A prompt decision: when is instructing a machine enough to claim authorship?
With great fanfare, and a Herculean final series of negotiating sessions stretching long into the night, political agreement on the EU AI Act was reached on 8th December 2023. This marked a big step closer to the first major piece of legislation regulating AI and its uses coming in
Continue Reading EU AI Act Update – Political Agreement Reached!
Today’s large language models (LLMs) are amazing, but use one for even a short time and the weaknesses of current LLM approaches start to show. While their ability to write recipes in the style of your favourite band’s lyrics is astonishing, logic and planning remain as area of poorer performance.
Continue Reading Grey area: getting cerebral about AI hardware and software developments
After the EU Parliament adopted its position regarding the draft EU AI Act on 14 June 2023 with an overwhelming majority, the last step of the legislative process – the trilogue negotiations between the Parliament, the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission – meanwhile began, mindful of the
Continue Reading EU AI Act Update – Latest developments and potential roadblocks ahead
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, generative AI, significant legal developments have recently unfolded that affect our understanding and approach to possible antitrust/competition interventions in the AI sector. Within the last month, two key documents have emerged:
