The Future of Employment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Faculty Director Gary Marchant will today give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, followed by a three day Master Course, on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and work. His talk – (When) Will a Robot Steal Your Job? – addresses concerns about AI in the workforce and what should be done about it. Artificial intelligence and advanced […]

GETS Keynote Speaker Erica Kochi on AI and Human Rights

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/469022112″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] Erica Kochi, co-founder of UNICEF Innovation, was a keynote speaker at the Sixth Annual Governance of Emerging Technology & Science Conference. While at the conference she sat down with Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross for an engaging episode of the Future Out Loud podcast. The episode covers a wide range of topics, including: Is […]

Erica Kochi and UNICEF on Children’s Rights in the Era of AI

Erica Kochi, co-founder of UNICEF Innovation, gave a stellar keynote presentation on human rights and machine learning in a global context at this year’s Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science Conference. Kochi and UNICEF see the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to impact the lives of children around the world, so they are launching a Children and AI project. […]

Learn from Experts and Scholars at LSI’s GETS Conference

REMINDER! Early Bird registration for the Sixth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science (GETS) ends Monday, April 30! The GETS Conference, May 16-18, includes presentations and discussions on the policy, social, and ethical aspects of emerging technologies. This year’s schedule features more than 50 speakers covering timely issues in artificial intelligence, privacy, healthcare, gene editing, blockchain, […]

LSI’s End-of-Year Community Board Meeting and Reception!

The Center for Law, Science & Innovation (LSI) is hosting our end-of-year Community Board Meeting and Reception tomorrow. Anyone interested in engaging in LSI’s programs and projects is invited. We’d love to see you there! Details: When: Tuesday, 3/20 from 4:30 – 6:30 pm Where: Beus Center for Law & Society | Map – Rm 544, 111 […]

Looking Back at Law and Tech in 2017

The ABA’s Top 10 Legal Tech Stories of 2017 covers cybersecurity, Internet of Things, patents, blockchain, and more. The Center for Law, Science & Innovation has been hard at work in many of these areas and on other legal aspects of emerging technology. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology have caught the attention of government regulators. Be sure to […]

Call for Papers: AI, Ethics & Society

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), two of the largest professional associations in the field of artificial intelligence, have announced a new joint conference on AI, Ethics and Society. The first annual conference will be held in New Orleans on Feb. 2-3, 2018. The organizers […]

August 2017 Starbucks Challenge

August 2017 Starbucks Challenge During the semester we feature a technology with potential legal, social and/or ethical  implications and ask: What’s YOUR answer? One $25 Starbucks gift card awarded per challenge based on what we feel is the most judicious response to the highlighted technology, below.  Deadline to be eligible for this month’s Starbucks gift […]

Worldwide Web Watch

On the lighter side of things today, how about an article titled AI engineer builds and marries his robot wife? The wedding ceremony was, apparently, informal. First, however, the wife will have to learn how to walk (what were the engineer’s priorities?).  Then she is scheduled to learn how to do “some household chores.”

Worldwide Web Watch

October 28, 2015 In Predictive Technologies Will Alter the Way we Live, Daniel Faggella discusses the influence big data has had on the ESP-like capabilities of technologies we use in our every-day lives.  The common thread among all the predictive technologies that are out there is their capability to draw inferences.  Faggella highlights some of […]