My first journal article "Ready, Willing, and Able? Challenges Facing the Governance of Generative AI in the UK’s Legal Services Sector" has been published in the journal Script-ed

I’m very happy to announce the publication of my first journal article “Ready, Willing, and Able? Challenges Facing the Governance of Generative AI in the UK’s Legal Services Sector” within the journal Script-ed.

Our work examines the increasing prominence of generative AI systems within the legal services sector and seeks to disentangle some of the core challenges this sector is facing in responsibly adopting these technologies. We argue that if we are to make the UK “Ready, Willing, and Able” to harness the power of generative AI technologoes then we need to rethink the current governance framework that is capable of setting, promoting, and supporting innovation across the legal sector as a whole. To this effect we identify 2 key issues: the challenge of ‘siloed thinking’ in which different parts of the legal sector fail to interact effectively in creating a unified governance framework around these technologies; and challenges facing the Legal Services Board’s attempt to act as unifiying regulator. Additionally, we consider two critical factors that are relevant to state-of-the-art AI systems which present critical challenges to the development of legal AI: (1) data access issues in the domain of law and (2) knowledge, skills, and awareness of capabilities relating to the application of generative AI to legal problem.