Professor and Center Faculty Director Gary Marchant recently spoke with Quartz about the explosion of activity in artificial intelligence (AI): This year the world woke up to the society-shifting power of artificial intelligence.
Marchant teaches courses like Artificial Intelligence: Law, Ethics & Policy at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and is co-chairing the AI and the Law track at the upcoming AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society Conference.
While work on AI is more mainstream than ever, there has been little regulation or oversight from governments. Marchant noted that, without traditional regulation, companies pursuing AI are on their own:
The practical reality is that in many emergent technologies like artificial intelligence, [self-regulatory bodies] are going to be essential, but they are problematic and challenging in many ways.
Similar issues arise in other fields dealing with emerging technologies, like Nanotechnology. Center Faculty Fellow Diana Bowman recently published on the challenges of regulating nanomaterials in the cosmetics industry.
The Center for Law, Science & Innovation will host its Sixth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science on May 16-18, 2018. The conference feature presentations and discussions on the impact and regulation of emerging technologies, including AI.
The Center is currently accepting submissions for proposed presentations here: Call for Abstracts. We particularly encourage abstracts relating to this year’s two priority themes: (i) internet of things, and (ii) success stories in public engagement, international coordination, or soft law.