AI

• Inventiveness of ChatGPT poses risk of defamation

  15th Jun 2023

  'The law is in a constant grey area when it comes to new technology that develops faster than laws can be updated', writes Mark Shumsky of Stacks Law Firm, discussing the whistleblower ChatGPT mistook for a criminal, and the difficulties in pursuing defamation actions against AI. 

• Predicting recidivism – the questionable role of algorithms in the criminal justice system

  30th Mar 2023

  As AI becomes increasingly popular in courts internationally, John Gooley of Stacks Law Firm questions the algorithm that predicted an 18-year-old African-American woman who took a child’s bike to be at ‘high risk’ of reoffending, while assessing a 41-year-old white man convicted of armed robbery as ‘low risk’.