( July 31, 2025, 13:06 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Multiple aspects of AI, including its training, use and autonomy, will impact the law, finds the UK’s Law Commission in a discussion paper it hopes will highlight the main issues. Unlike in its typical papers, the independent body of legal policy experts does not set out proposals for legal reform at this stage, but seeks to increase awareness and discussion of challenges around liability, insurance, model opacity and reliance on AI. The paper states that many issues stem from AI systems not having legal personality and, while it finds that systems are currently not sufficiently complex to warrant the status, it starts the discussion on how the process might work and what problems it could create.Statement follows, report attached:...
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