Artificial intelligence (AI) law creates new opportunities and challenges traditional business models across many sectors. It is accelerating drug discovery, diagnosing disease, automating transport, reducing insurance costs, tailoring customer experiences and driving efficiencies across multiple sectors.

The strength of our UK AI team lies in our full-service approach. We draw on the experience of lawyers from across our many practice areas including corporate, commercial, competition law, cyber security, data protection, employment, intellectual property and product liability, pairing technically excellent legal advice with vast knowledge of AI-related matters.

What is AI?

There is no universally accepted definition of AI, but a reasonable summary is that it covers the automation of tasks that are generally considered to require intelligence. Much of AI's recent breakthroughs are in "machine learning", where a computer system follows procedures to learn from data or an environment. The dramatic advances are typically accompanied by significant limitations, such as a lack of transparency as to how the AI works, risks of unpredictable failure and potential bias.