AI: Law and Policy – Day II

Date: 

Tue, 27/11/2018 - 08:30 to 18:30

Location: 

Eshkol Observatory, University of Haifa

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The AI revolution has been described by some as tantamount to a “new industrial revolution”, which may change dramatically the ways in which societies operate, harbingering new models of economic life, new forms of government and perhaps also new understandings of the very notion of humanity.

The AI revolution has considerable legal and ethical implications, which invite fundamental policy choices. These range from new models of liability for harms created by non-human decision makers, the regulatory framework governing the operation of robots, the creation of new human rights corresponding to AI-dominated social conditions, to the introduction of new legal persons (e.g., AI systems). Multiple second-order law and policy questions are also raised, relating to how regulation should be brought about, how should regulation be divided between private or public law (e.g., insurance, strict civil liability, licensing or criminal liability), and what is the role of international law in this context. Questions related to the capacity of existing laws, institutions, ethical notions and cyber security systems to contain these new developments underlie many of the existing law and policy debates.

You can Find videos from day II of the conference here.

Agenda

08:30-09:00 – Registration and Coffee

09:00-09:30 – Greetings & Overview
Eynan Lichterman
, Israel National Cyber Directorate
Yuval Shany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa, Faculty of Law

09:30-11:00 – AI and Markets (Watch the Video)
Moderator: Jonatan Yovel
, University of Haifa
Michal Gal, University of Haifa – Algorithms as Illegal Agreements
Nizan Geslevich Packin, Baruch College – In Big Data Algorithms We Trust? Nudging to Get A Second Opinion
Ido Sivan-Sevilla, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) – Regulating Emerging Technologies in the European Union: Online Advertising as an Emerging AI Technology that Threatens Cybersecurity and Privacy

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 – The Discriminatory Effect of AI (Watch the Video)
Chair: Tal Zarsky, University of Haifa
Talia Gillis and Jann Spiess, Harvard Law School and Department of Economics – Big Data and Discrimination
George Bouchagiar, Ionian University – Fighting Algo-Dicrimination

12:30-13:30 – Lunch

13:30-14:30 – Keynote: AI and Ethics (Watch the Video)
Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech

14:30-15:00 – Coffee Break

15:00-15:45 – Keynote: Courtney Bowman, Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties Engineering, Palantir Technologies – The Limits of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence & The Enduring Need for Human Agency and Understanding

15:45-17:15 – Predictive Policing and National Security (Watch the Video)
Chair: Oren Gazal-Eyal, University of Haifa
Nimrod Kozlovsky, Herzog, Fox & Neeman – Predicting Crime or Profiling Humans?
Eldar Haber, University of Haifa – The Wiretapping of Things
Ronja Kniep, WZB Berlin Social Science Center – Artificial Intelligence Meets Signals Intelligence: Secrecy, Accountability, and Transnationality
Yafit Lev-Aretz, The City University of New York – Personalized Choice Architecture  

17:15-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-18:30 Concluding Remarks (Watch the Video): Eviatar Matania, Head of Security Studies Program, Tel-Aviv University, and former Head of the Israeli National Cyber Directorate inconversation with Tal Zarsky, University of Haifa 

18:30 – Reception

 

See also: Day I