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A government minister is set to meet with officials from Elon Musk's social media platform X today in the wake of an international scandal around AI-powered abuse of women and children. Niamh Smyth, the minister of state with special responsibility for trade promotion, AI and digital transformation,

Ireland should use its EU presidency to push for stricter laws against using AI to generate and share non-consensual intimate images, the government has been told. The AI Advisory Council has published its recommendations to the government on the alleged creation and public dissemination of AI-gener

A major international law firm is set to roll out a new scheme whereby junior lawyers can spend up to 20 per cent of their time on "hands-on AI exploration". Ropes & Gray piloted the AI programme in its US offices and is now set to bring it to London, according to The Times.

Google and AI startup Character.AI have reached settlements in a series of lawsuits brought by families who claim AI chatbots caused harm to children, including contributing to the suicide of a Florida teenager. The proposed settlements cover cases filed in Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas, alt

Experts on children's rights and women's safety have urged the introduction of a ban on AI-powered "nudification" tools in Ireland as quickly as possible. Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has come under intense scrutiny in Ireland and internationally because it has been widely used to generate and share

Coimisiún na Meán and An Garda Síochána have been urged to take action against Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, which has been used to generate and share sexually explicit images of women and children. Ireland's media regulator has told RTÉ News that it is engaging wit

A citizens' assembly should be held on AI policy and ethics, an Oireachtas committee has recommended. The recommendation is one of 85 included in the first interim report of the joint committee on artificial intelligence, which was published yesterday.

Google is facing an EU competition probe over its use of online content to help power its generative AI systems, including AI summaries on search result pages. The European Commission will investigate whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, is under criminal investigation for Holocaust denial. Public prosecutors in Paris launched an investigation after Grok appeared to verify false claims made on X by a French neo-Nazi previously convicted of Holocaust denial offences.

Plans to train judges in AI and digitalisation have been set out by the European Commission. The Commission yesterday launched its new digital justice package, which includes a strategy for helping member states "unlock the potential" of AI and digital tools in justice systems, as well as a new judi

Kane Tuohy employment lawyer Triona Cody examines the WRC's new AI guidance for litigants. Last month, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) issued guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to prepare material for submission to the WRC.

Generative AI can be "hugely beneficial to solicitors", the Law Society of Ireland has said in its first formal guidance for members. Published yesterday on the Law Society website, the guidance highlights potential uses and limitations of generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and si

LinkedIn has revised its AI roll-out plans following engagement from Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC). The Microsoft-owned social media platform informed the DPC in March of its intention to train its own proprietary generative AI models using the personal data of LinkedIn members based in

RDJ LLP partner Ruth Finnerty and solicitor Thomas McInerney examine the Medical Council of Ireland's position on artificial intelligence. The Medical Council of Ireland has published its Position Statement on Artificial Intelligence which explicitly recognises the potential of AI to improve patient

The English court ruling in a dispute between Getty Images and Stability AI is "the most impactful legal decision yet on the nature of artificial intelligence and copyright law", according to William Fry partners Dr Barry Scannell and Leo Moore. Mrs Justice Joanna Smith DBE handed down her long-awai