Date: 19 February 2025, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Venue: Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Legislators in the United States and Europe are moving quickly to regulate artificial intelligence to minimize its risks to privacy, safety, and security while benefiting from its efficiencies in industry, governance, and society.
While the European Union has moved ahead with more omnibus legislation like the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, and the General Data Protection Regulation, the US and the UK are exploring approaches that differ from the EU in both scope and focus.
This event will bring together a group of scholars with an international focus on the different kinds of AI regulation and their consequences. The speakers will explore the human values served by these different models, their compatibility with each other and other frameworks, and their possible effects on our world.
This public (in person) seminar concerns policy areas of significant interest to policymakers, and the wider public. The topics have significant appeal nationally and internationally. It will also have policy impact in terms of national policymaking, particularly given forthcoming reforms to UK data protection law and forthcoming UK legislation on AI.
Speakers:
Lead speaker: Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
Woodrow Hartzog is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. His research focuses on law and policy issues related to privacy, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies, published in 2018 by Harvard University Press and co-author of Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It, published in 2022 by Oxford University Press (with Daniel Solove).
Professor Barry C Smith, Director, Institute of Philosophy, Centre for the Study of the Senses
UKRI FLF Development Network Lead for Public Engagement, Research and Innovation, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Barry C Smith is a professor of philosophy and director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. He is also the founding director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, which pioneers collaborative research between philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists. Barry is currently the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Leadership Fellow for the Science in Culture Theme. He held visiting professorships at the University of California at Berkeley, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia and the Ecole Normale Superiéure in Paris. In 2007, he edited Questions of Taste: the philosophy of wine, Oxford University Press; in 2008, he edited The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press (with Ernest Lepore), and Knowing Our Own Minds Oxford University Press in 1998 (with Crispin Wright and Cynthia Macdonald). Barry is a frequent broadcaster, including appearances on BBC One’s Masterchef and Radio 3’s FreeThinking.
Dr Anna-Maria Sichani, BRAID Fellow – Research Associate in Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Dr. Anna-Maria Sichani is a media and cultural historian and a Digital Humanist. Recently appointed as a BRAID Fellow, collaborating with the Alan Turing Institute, Anna-Maria is looking at embedding responsible AI literacy skills across the cultural heritage community to empower informed, responsible and ethical use of AI and machine learning. Her current research interests include data-intensive research and emerging technologies in the arts, humanities, and the wider cultural heritage and information environment, with a focus towards open, responsible, ethical and sustainable research. She has recently developed a toolkit on Generative AI, data protection and intellectual property in digital cultural heritage.
Chair:
Dr Nóra Ní Loideain, Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.
This event is free to attend, but booking is required.
Contact
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