Topic: Artificial intelligence

The EU’s AI Act imposes extensive obligations on the development and use of AI.

The EU AI Act’s obligations begin to apply from 2 February. The first obligations to apply are the prohibitions, which ban the provision or use of AI in some scenarios. Fines are up to 7% of total worldwide annual turnover for non-compliance.

The UK government has issued a new consultation, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, under which it is proposing to address a tension that exists between:

The final days of 2024 were very eventful in the world of AI and data protection: the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Article 64 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) opinion on training AI models using personal data (the EDPB Opinion).

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) was asked by the Irish supervisory authority to issue an Opinion under Article 64(2) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on AI models and processing personal data (the Opinion). The Opinion sets out the EDPB’s answers to the four questions the Irish supervisory authority put to it.

Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products (the Revised Product Liability Directive) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 18 November 2024.

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Generative AI, into company secretarial and governance tasks, such as recording or otherwise assisting with board meeting minutes, has the potential to enhance efficiency and productivity.

On 5 November 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) opened its AI Input Zone, through which it is inviting stakeholders to provide their views on current and future uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in UK financial services, as well as the financial services regulatory framework.

This webinar will look at the legal risks to consider when developing and using AI in the UK in 2025, including considerations for generative AI tools. It will provide an update on UK AI policy and new laws proposed. It will also look at existing cross-sectoral and sectoral laws and how they apply to AI, and the application of the EU AI Act to UK businesses.

AI adoption must now be on every board room and executive team’s agenda as an emerging area of risk and regulatory focus. This issue has been given further impetus by a number of key developments across Australia’s multi-jurisdictional landscape.