23rd Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium
Governing Machines: Defining and Enforcing Public Policy Values in AI Systems
Thursday, April 4, 2019
2:15 p.m. Fairness and/or/vs. Privacy and Dignity
- Yes, “Algorithms” Can Be Biased. Here’s Why.
Steve Bellovin, Op-ed on Ars Technica, Jan 2019 - The Ironies of Automation Law: Tying Policy Knots with Fair Automation Practices Principles
Meg Leta Jones, 18 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 77, Fall 2015 -
Scott Zoldi, Deep Dive: How to Make “Black Box” Neural Networks Explainable (Jan. 14, 2019)
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Scott Zoldi, Explainable AI: Implications for compliance with GDPR and beyond (2017)
4:00 p.m. Safety and Humans in the Loop
- Why Human-in-the-Loop Computing is the Future of Machine Learning
Lukas Biewald, Op-ed on Computerworld, Nov 2015 - Centaur Warfighting: The False Choice of Humans vs. Automation
Paul Scharre, 30 Temp. Int’l & Comp. L.J. 151, Spring 2016
Friday, April 5, 2019
9:00 a.m. Machines of Manipulation
- Private Accountability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Sonia K. Katyal, 66 UCLA L. Rev. 54, Jan 2019 - Taming the Golem: Challenges of Ethical Algorithmic Decision-Making
Omer Tene and Jules Polonetsky, 19 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 125, Oct 2017
10:30 a.m. Keynote – Yeong Zee Kin, Deputy Commissioner of the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission
- Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore, A Proposed Model Artificial Intelligence Governance Framework (January 2019)
11:00 a.m. Ethical Machines – Professional knowledge and ethics
- What Did Cambridge Analytica Do During the 2016 Election?
Scott Detrow, Heard on All Things Considered, NPR, March 2018 - Ethical Machines?
Ariela Tubert, 41 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1163, Summer 2018 - The Co-Evolution of Autonomous Machines and Legal Responsibility
Mark A. Chinen, 20 Va. J.L. & Tech. 338, Fall 2016
1:00 p.m. David E. Nelson Memorial Lecture – Andrea Jelinek, Chair, European Data Protection Board
- European Commission, Communication: Artificial Intelligence for Europe (April 2018)
1:30 p.m. Trust but Verify – Validating and Defending Against Machine Decisions
- Artificial Intelligence Is Now Used to Predict Crime, But Is It Biased?
Randy Rieland, Smithsonian.com, March 2018 - Trust But Verify: A Guide to Algorithms and the Law
Deven R. Desai and Joshua A. Kroll, 31 Harv. J. Law & Tec 1, Fall 2017 - A Government of Laws and Not of Machines
Emily Berman, 98 B.U.L. Rev. 1278, Oct 2018