ILPC Annual Conference 2024 AI and Power: Regulating Risk and Rights
- Event type
- Conference / Symposium
- Address
- 21 November (In-person only) and 22 November (Online only)
- Event dates
- Contact
- ials.events@sas.ac.uk _
ILPC Annual Conference 2024
AI and Power: Regulating Risk and Rights
The ILPC’s 9th Annual Conference will explore the risk and rights-based approaches to the regulation of AI-based systems, including generative AI, that are increasingly used across society. Particularly the implications of these systems for the rights and responsibilities of individuals and organisations. All panels will address the development and future of these approaches for policymaking and governance within the United Kingdom, Europe, and internationally.
Keynote speakers include:
Audrey Plonk Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (OECD)
Mark Johnson Head of Advocacy (Big Brother Watch)
Luca Belli Professor of Digital Governance and Regulation (FGV, Rio de Janeiro)
Orla Lynskey Professor of Law & Technology (UCL)
Christopher Millard Professor of Privacy & Information Law (QMUL)
Martin Husovec Associate Professor of Law (LSE)
Franco Giandana Gigena Policy Analyst (Access Now)
Lawrence McNamara Criminal Law Team (Law Commission of England & Wales)
Graham Smith Of Counsel (Bird & Bird LLP)
Rosamund Powell Centre for Emerging Technology & Security (Alan Turing Institute)
John Naughton University of Cambridge; The Observer
The ILPC Annual Conference will include the ILPC Annual Lecture 2024, and we are delighted to announce that this will be delivered by world-leading scholar danah boyd entitled:
‘Interventions Not Solutions in an Era of AI Policymaking’
danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the U.S. census to understand how data are made legitimate. Her previous studies have focused on media manipulation, algorithmic bias, privacy practices, social media, and teen culture. Her monograph "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" has received widespread praise. She founded the research institute Data & Society, where she currently serves as an advisor. She is also a trustee of the Computer History Museum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on the advisory board of Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Click here to download programme (pdf)
Attendance (in person and online) will be free thanks to the support of our sponsors, although registration is required as places are limited.
About the Information Law and Policy Centre
The Centre is based at IALS and was launched in 2015. Its mission is to undertake, promote, and facilitate, cross-disciplinary scholarship and research in the areas of information law and policy, domestically and internationally, in collaboration with a variety of organisations within the public and private sectors, and civil society.
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All welcome - this event if free to attend but booking is required.
