Lyria Bennett Moses

Panel: Legal and Ethical Challenges of AI 

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Governance of what? Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Automation

With artificial intelligence and ‘algorithms’ being rapidly applied across all sectors of society and the economy, there are understandably calls for increased regulation. But where to start? Many proposals for regulation focus too deeply on technical concepts (such as artificial intelligence, algorithms, automated processing, bots, big data, robots, autonomous systems) rather than the values we seek to protect. By starting with what we want to preserve (for example, fairness and accountability) rather than with how we regulate a set of technical practices (for example, ‘artificial intelligence’), we can achieve the same thing without the drawbacks of unnecessary technological specificity and capture more of what is on the technological horizon.

 

Bio

Professor Lyria Bennett Moses is Director of the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She is also co-lead of the Law and Policy theme in the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre,  Faculty Lead, Law and Justice in the UNSW Institute for Cyber Security and co-chair of the Australian Law Associate Dean Research Network. Lyria’s research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the types of legal issues that arise as technology changes, how these issues are addressed in Australia and other jurisdictions, and the problems of treating “technology” as an object of regulation. Recently, she has been working on legal and policy issues associated with the use of artificial intelligence, and the appropriate legal framework for enhancing cyber security. Lyria is a member of the editorial boards for Technology and Regulation; Law, Technology and Humans; Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law; and Law in Context. She is on the NSW Information and Privacy Advisory Committee, the Executive Committee of the Australian Chapter of the IEEE’s Society for the Social Implications of Technology, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

 

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