Data Science & AI Festival, Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow
29 October 2025, 13:00 – 15:30
Is AI simply a new technology that can be regulated with existing tools under familiar legal concepts (such as product safety, personal data, copyright or competition laws)? Or does it require new regulatory thinking and a new legal approach? The CREATe Centre is engaged in an ongoing research programme on AI that involves the examination of regulatory fields and practice. CREATe also conducts a number of projects on specific issues, such as the nature of AI enabled creativity, performers’ rights, transparency, AI hallucinations, self-evolving AI, cultural heritage data, and dark patterns in video games.
After a welcome from Prof. Bridgette Wessels (Centre for Data Science & AI, lead for College of Social Sciences), the Roundtable will begin with an introduction to the regulatory landscape for AI in the UK, in the context of fast evolving cross-jurisdictional and geo-political pressures.
Speakers will be Prof. Lilian Edwards and Prof. Martin Kretschmer (who will chair the event).
This will be followed by examples of CREATe’s current projects, presented in pitch format. CREATe speakers will include Prof. Kris Erickson, Dr Aline Iramina, Dr Zihao Li, Bartolomeo Meletti, Prof. Philip Schlesinger and Weiwei Yi.
A roundtable discussion with regulators will conclude the event, on the model of previous engagements. This will be led by Prof. Philip Schlesinger.
Confirmed participants:
Christos Christodoulopoulos | Principal Technology Adviser | Information Commissioner’s Office
Brigadier Geoffrey CW Dodds | Secretary | Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee
Prof. Morten Hviid | Centre for Competition Policy | University of East Anglia
Matt Lambert | Head of Copyright, Policy & Assurance | The British Library
Emily Mayhew [tbc] | Senior Strategy Advisor – Tech and AI Strategy Unit | Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS)
Dr Richard Osborne | University of Glasgow | British Academy Innovation Fellow at Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) | ‘AI, Intellectual Property (IP) and the Creative Industries’
Chia Seiler | Public Policy Principal (Digital and DRCF) | DRCF Director (Ofcom)
Robin Van Mulders | Assistant Director | Digital Markets Unit | CMA
To attend this roundtable on the regulation of AI, please register here.
CREATe (www.create.ac.uk) is a research centre of the University of Glasgow recognised by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) with national centre status (AHRC/EPSRC/ESRC copyright centre, 2012-2018; consortium member of the AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, 2019-2023; AHRC infrastructure award, 2024-2028).
Our team comprises 14 FTE researchers working at the nexus of law, technology, creative and cultural industries, socio-cultural analysis, and market regulation. With a disciplinary anchor in intellectual property law, competition law, and information and technology law, we are engaged in independent research on the impact and regulation of new technologies and services, including AI.
Other CREATe events within the Data Science and AI Festival:
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Worlds (28 October, 9:00-12:30)
https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/09/24/workshop-ai-and-interactive-worlds/
CREATe Public Lecture on Copyright as Infrastructure by Monica Westin, University of Cambridge (28 October 2025, 17:30-19:00)
https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/09/18/tech-law-llm-inaugural-lecture-by-monica-westin-28-october-2025-copyright-as-infrastructure-in-the-age-of-ai/
Significant CREATe policy interventions relating to AI:
In CREATe’s Response to the Consultation of the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) on generative AI (2023) we identified the following regulatory concerns: (1) Safety: outputs may be plausible and apparently well-grounded but wrong, dangerous or fraudulent; (2) Bias: outputs reflect inputs (e.g. from Internet scrapes, such as Common Crawl); (3) Black box: sources of information and how models were trained and aligned is often unknown; (4) Personal data: implicated both with respect to inputs and outputs; (5) Intellectual Property: training data typically relies on content that is copyright protected, outputs may be infringing; (6) Impacts on inter-firm competition and industry structure.
- https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2024/05/28/accuracy-of-training-data-and-model-outputs-in-generative-ai-create-response-to-the-information-commissioners-office-ico-consultation/
- https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/02/26/copyright-and-ai-response-by-the-create-centre-to-the-uk-governments-consultation/
- https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/05/02/new-working-paper-studying-the-digital-regulation-cooperation-forum-drcf/