{"id":193514,"date":"2025-06-18T04:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193514\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:49:10","slug":"bar-council-is-wise-to-the-risk-of-ai-misuse-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193514\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Council is wise to the risk of AI misuse | Artificial intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">In your report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/06\/high-court-tells-uk-lawyers-to-urgently-stop-misuse-of-ai-in-legal-work\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High court tells UK lawyers to stop misuse of AI after fake case-law citations, 6 June<\/a>), you quote Dame Victoria Sharp\u2019s call that we, the Bar Council, and our solicitor colleagues at the Law Society address this matter urgently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">We couldn\u2019t agree more. This high court judgment emphasises the dangers of the misuse by lawyers of artificial intelligence, particularly large language models, and in particular its serious implications for the administration of justice and public confidence in the justice system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The public is entitled to expect from legal professionals the highest standards of integrity and competence in appropriate understanding and use of new technologies, as well as in all other\u00a0respects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The Bar Council has already issued guidance on the opportunities and risks surrounding the use of generative AI, which is quoted by the court, and is in the process of setting up a joint working group with the Bar\u00a0Standards Board to identify how best we can support barristers\u00a0to uphold those standards with appropriate further\u00a0training\u00a0and supervision.<br \/><strong>Lawrence Akka KC<\/strong><br \/>Chair, Bar Council IT panel<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><strong> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/17\/mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city\/town\/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>email<\/strong><\/a><strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/letters\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>letters<\/strong><\/a><strong> section.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In your report (High court tells UK lawyers to stop misuse of AI after fake case-law citations, 6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702566200495484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}