Frank Pasquale, MPhil, JD
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Amy Sliva, MPP, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
King’s College (Pennsylvania)
Abstract: Automated umpires calling balls and strikes in baseball. (A legal scholar comments: “Augmented refereeing is here. Algorithmic refereeing is at the door.") Automated media, algorithmically curating your news feed in light of your preferences. On yet another level of seriousness, lethal autonomous weapons, patrolling the skies without direct human control. Facial recognition databases, integrated into systems of total surveillance. As a recent New York Times article put it, “The robots are coming for Phil in accounting”—and for so much more. Artificial intelligence is invading our lives. Not only does it threaten jobs (just by way of example: bank tellers, customer service, accountants, investment bankers, perhaps even dermatologists and radiologists); it also raises urgent questions about its regulation, and about who should have the power to shape the coming “futuristic” world.
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Sponsored by the McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility
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