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Datacentres facing increase in global climate-related legal cases, report finds

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LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollutionThe proliferation of datacentres and AI is increasingly at the forefront of environmental litigation around the world from Chile to Ireland, a report has found.In an analysis of about 3,600 climate-related lawsuits filed since 2015, the latest annual review of climate litigation by […]

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If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame? | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

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A court in Germany found that Google was responsible for what its chatbots say in search summaries. This is the accountability we needEarlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves”, and that they generally know “that information generated with

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Artificial intelligence law firm wins court case in England for first time

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Company hails victory for freelancer over unpaid debt as ‘landmark moment’ for access to justiceAn artificial intelligence law firm has won a case in an English court, in what is believed to be the first time a trial has been won using an AI lawyer.A freelance HR consultant, Tamires Camal Taquidir, paid the firm, called

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Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK

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Meta, YouTube and Snapchat say ban, which would stop children using their platforms, will drive them to ‘less safe services’UK politics live – latest updatesHow will the ban work?UK parents: how do you feel about the ban?Britain’s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, the world’s biggest technology

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Labour MP sues Elon Musk’s AI company over fake sexualised images

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Jess Asato was portrayed by AI tool as wearing a bikini after she criticised the creation of such non-consensual picturesA Labour MP has taken legal action against Elon Musk’s AI company after saying its Grok tool helped a user produce fake sexualised pictures of her, part of a wave of such images that flooded X

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The Guardian view on policing the internet: Ofcom must pusher harder on illegal content | Editorial

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Jess Phillips’ frustration about online safety highlights the alarming reluctance to confront big techThe £950,000 fine imposed by Ofcom on a US-based suicide forum that is implicated in over 160 UK deaths marks an intensification of the regulator’s efforts to make the internet safer. Campaigners against online harms, including relatives of people who have taken

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What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

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Two of the world’s richest people faced an airing of their dirty laundry amid their messy, bitter feud over OpenAIA nine-person jury is set to decide whether Elon Musk’s allegations of “stealing a charity” against Sam Altman and OpenAI are legitimate, with deliberations to begin in earnest on Monday. Whatever its outcome, the case has

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No flattery please, Claude: I’m British | Brief letters

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Richard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthroughThe otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it, 6 May). Such bots are initially geared

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Improving understanding with language

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When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside Birmingham. The practical and cultural differences between farm and city life became more pronounced by comparison. “Life and the way we lived it slowed down on the farm,” she says. “It was a nice change

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AI in law firms entering its closing summaries

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In an interview with Artificial Lawyer, Paris-based AI-native consulting firm owner, Olivier Chaduteau, set out a three-part account of the current state of AI in the legal sector. At first, lawyers dismissed AI as irrelevant to expert work. In the second, organisations bought licences to LLMs to signal activity to partners and/or clients, but little

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