Thursday, July 31, 2025

Perspective.

https://www.bespacific.com/artificial-intelligence-and-the-law-a-discussion-paper/

Artificial Intelligence and the Law: a discussion paper

UK. Law Commission: “The paper aims to raise awareness of legal issues regarding AI, prompting wider discussion of the topic, and to act as a step towards identifying those areas most in need of law reform. ” July 31, 2025.”… With the rapid development and improved performance of AI has come increased investment and wider and more frequent applications of it. AI is expected to deliver social and economic benefits, leading to increased productivity, boosting economic growth and output, and may lead to innovations that can save and improve lives, such as the development of new cancer drugs or new medical treatments. Taking advantage of those opportunities is a focus for Government, as set out in its AI Opportunities Action Plan, published in January 2025. In 2025, Government also reached agreements with leading AI developers Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI to take advantage of opportunities offered by AI and explore increased investment in and use of AI. However, as with other technological developments, AI’s potential to deliver benefits  comes with risks that it will cause harm. AI has been used to perpetuate fraud, cause harassment, assist in cyber hacks, spread disinformation that harms democratic processes, and can create “deepfake” images of people as a form of abuse or to enable identity theft, among other examples. There are also concerns that increased use of AI could cause harm by way of social upheaval, that AI will replace existing workforces, at scale, in a wide range of industries, from manual to highly-skilled. Further concerns exist about the environmental impact of technology that is using an increasingly large quantity of energy and water…”





Latest target? AI!

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-07-30-ibm-report-13-of-organizations-reported-breaches-of-ai-models-or-applications,-97-of-which-reported-lacking-proper-ai-access-controls

IBM Report: 13% Of Organizations Reported Breaches Of AI Models Or Applications, 97% Of Which Reported Lacking Proper AI Access Controls

IBM today released its Cost of a Data Breach Report, which revealed AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance. While the overall number of organizations experiencing an AI-related breach is a small representation of the researched population, this is the first time security, governance and access controls for AI have been studied in this report, which suggests AI is already an easy, high value target.

  • 13% of organizations reported breaches of AI models or applications, while 8% of organizations reported not knowing if they had been compromised in this way.

  • Of those compromised, 97% report not having AI access controls in place.

  • As a result, 60% of the AI-related security incidents led to compromised data and 31% led to operational disruption.



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