'Can Law Stop Criminals Misusing AI?’ – UCL Master of Laws (LLM) online event

Online Date & time: 10 Jun 2026, 12:00 – 13:00 GMT

Join Michael Veale, Professor of Technology, Law and Policy at UCL Laws, as he explores how law can respond to the misuse of artificial intelligence, and discover the new LLM Law and Technology specialism at UCL Laws.

AI is being used every day to generate deepfakes of friends and family to undertake complex scams, to inform terrorist groups and cyberattacks, and to abusively create or alter intimate images of adults and children. These things are broadly considered unambiguously bad, but it can be difficult or impossible to stop this. 

Law is increasingly looking to regulate a lot of other actors in the technological supply chain: cloud providers, operating systems, mobile phones, companies operating the networks, marketplaces where people download and share models, and places where criminals communicate with each other and their victims. How can, and should, law respond proportionally and effectively to safeguard society against the abusive misuse of AI?

About the session

This online session will include a talk by Professor Michael Veale, Can Law Stop Criminals Misusing AI?, exploring how law can respond to the misuse of artificial intelligence in areas such as deepfakes, scams, cyberattacks, and other forms of online harm.

It will also provide you with an overview of our LLM Law programme, an introduction to our new LLM Law and Technology specialism, followed by a Q&A session with Sarah Campling (Programme Director) and the LLM Admissions team.

Whether you’ve submitted your application, hold an offer, or are still considering your options, we welcome all attendees to ask questions about applying to the LLM at UCL Laws, modules, specialisms, and our connections to legal London.

This event is for anyone interested in studying the general LLM or any of our LLM specialisms.

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