Judicial Review and AI: Regulating the UK public sector

As government departments and other public bodies in the UK push for more ways to find efficiencies through the use of artificial intelligence (AI), legal questions are arising more frequently for the courts to scrutinise the use of AI in order to ensure that public bodies continue to act lawfully in their decision-making.

Our panel of public law experts will explore how, in the absence of statutory regulation, our principles of public and administrative law already provide a framework for regulating the use of AI by public bodies, and how the Administrative Court can be expected to step in more frequently in future using its judicial review function to supervise the use of AI in the UK public sector.

Themes covered will include:

• risks of AI bias and equality considerations
• limits on using AI to process personal data
• restrictions on the full delegation of decision-making to AI
• using AI to process large-scale public consultations
• transparency and disclosure of AI in decision-making