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Diver to attend roundtable on AI and the Rule of Law in Athens
Laurence Diver attended a high-profile roundtable on AI and the Rule of Law in Athens on 20-21 September 2019. He joined representatives from across academia, industry and government to discuss principles for the trustworthy adoption (or not!) of AI in legal systems, legal practice, and related questions of compliance. The discussion considered recent international initiatives seeking to develop principles for the use of AI in the legal context, a theme centrally relevant to the focus of COHUBICOL.
... »Diver to speak at this year’s Gikii conference
Laurence Diver spoke at this year’s Gikii conference, with a talk entitled “Legal Tech, or the Story of Your [Legal] Life”. Based around Ted Chiang’s novella Story of Your Life and its 2016 film adaptation Arrival, the talk explored the implications of ML-based legal prediction. What do we stand to gain and, perhaps more importantly, lose in the adoption of automated predictions? Can we continue fully to count as human being in the face of this ‘actuarial’ approach to justice?
... »Hildebrandt to keynote at three major CS conferences this fall
This Fall, Mireille Hildebrandt will be keynoting at three major computer science conferences: ACM-RecSys2019 in Copenhagen, ACM-Multimedia2019 in Nice and ECSS2019 in Rome.
... »Hildebrandt keynotes at the European Forum of Official Gazettes at The Hague
Mireille Hildebrandt did a keynote at the European Forum of Official Gazettes The Hague 2019, on ‘Access to Legal Information. Opening Pandora’s box’, 21 June 2019, see slides here.
... »Hildebrandt presents on ‘Beyond Differential Privacy’ at the Simons Institute
Presentation at the workshop ‘Beyond Differential Privacy’, Simons Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, on ‘What if privacy is incomputable?, 5-11 May 2019 see slides here.
... »Hildebrandt presentation at Silicon Flatirons in Boulder, Colorado
Mireille Hildebrandt presented at Silicon Flatirons, Boulder Colorado, a Conference on ‘Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Can We Hold Machines Accountable?’ organised by Margot Kaminski and Harry Surden, where Mireille spoke on whether e.g. RTB is an effective way of promoting one’s goods and services or a hoax built on p-hacking and opacity.
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