Center’s AI governance research featured by premier intergovernmental organization
In a blogpost last week, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showcased work by ASU’s Center for Law, Science and Innovation (LSI) on soft-law governance of AI. The site OECD.AI published an article by Center Faculty Director, Prof. Gary Marchant, and Law Research Fellow, Dr. Carlos Gutierrez, entitled, “Soft law 2.0: Incorporating incentives […]
DevilDocs Takes Round One of Hackathon at ASU Law
The Center for Law, Science and Innovation hosted the 2019 Global Legal Hackathon at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law on February 22-24. The event attracted law students, local attorneys, computer science students, coders, and other members of the community. These participants spent a weekend planing, designing, and coding tech solutions for the legal […]
Marchant on Soft Law and Artificial Intelligence
Faculty Director Gary Marchant recently wrote on approaches to the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) for UCLA School of Law’s new AI Pulse project. Marchant’s article, “Soft Law” Governance of Artificial Intelligence, takes a look at calls for traditional governmental regulation of AI, and where such an approach is unsuitable for AI technology and development. Marchant instead proposes […]
Future Out Loud feat. GETS Speaker Gillian K. Hadfield
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/456904956″ 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” /] The latest episode of Future Out Loud, co-hosted by Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross, features author and professor Gillian K. Hadfield discussing how to govern emerging technologies. Hadfield, professor of law at USC’s Gould School of Law, sat down with Maynard and Ross at the LSI’s Sixth Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies […]
Marchant on the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence
Faculty Director Gary Marchant recently spoke on artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the Law + Innovation program organized by Navigant Consulting and the ABA Section of Litigation. Marchant discussed the evolution of AI across industries and its impact on the legal profession. Marchant also sat down with Navigant’s Jim Vint to discuss the limitations of AI, […]
Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard on the Risks of AI
Andrew Maynard – LSI Faculty Fellow, Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and Director of ASU’s Risk Innovation Lab – presents the potential risks associated with the development of artificial intelligence (AI). This excellent video briefly discusses 10 risks that should be in the minds of AI researchers and consumers alike (though, Maynard […]
LSI’s New Interest Group on AI and the Law
LSI is launching an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Law Interest Group. This group will explore research projects, conference presentations, papers, and activities relating to the use of AI in the practice of law, and the role of law in governing AI technology. The AI and Law Interest Group, headed by Faculty Director Gary Marchant, is open to […]
Coffee Challenge Winners: Sept., Oct., & Nov.
This year our Coffee Challenges produced great discussions on some of the hottest topics in emerging technology. As the year comes to a close, we wanted to highlight some of the recent winners. September Challenge: Tesla and SpaceX mogul Elon Musk called artificial intelligence a fundamental existential risk to human civilization and called on governors to […]
Marchant on the Year in Artificial Intelligence
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 […]
LSI holds Legal Analytics Workshop
The Center for Law, Science & Innovation, in collaboration with e-discovery expert Michael Arkfeld, held its second annual Legal Analytics and Big Data Workshop on October 27, 2017. The Workshop, attended by industry-wide experts and stakeholders in the field of legal analytics from across the country, is a forum for provocative discussion of the use […]