📝 Advice for converting your PhD dissertation into a book.

(Thanks to Alison Kirk at Routledge for sharing the document. 🙏🏽)

Responsibly Buying Artificial Intelligence: A ‘Regulatory Hallucination’

Really pleased that the article is now published in Current Legal Problems on FirstView (doi.org/10.1093/clp/cu…). If you do not have institutional access, email me for a link.

Join us online on May 2 for a conversation with Mimi Ọnụọha!

Through a series of artworks, Mimi will explore the messy spaces between categorization & collection, revealing the ways that absence is intimately tied to history, culture & power. stanford.io/3J6O9w1

📅 Here our next Católica Global School of Law Law and Tech Lecture! We are pleased to host Margot Kaminski with a lecture on 'Constructing AI Speech', with my great co conveners João Pedro Quintais and Melanie Fink. A special thanks to Tiago Bessa for hosting this lecture at VdA. More 👉

Happy Sci-F(r)iday all! Don't forget our Star Wars Special Issue, 'Force-Ful Arguments: Scales of Technology, Law In Star Wars Universe' May Your Ideas Be With Us! Hurry, the deadline approaches like a speeding Digi Con-wing!

digi-con.org/star-wars-spec…

We're delighted to share a project co-launched by Oxford Internet Institute DPhil Student Lujain Ibrahim لجين إبراهيم. It's an exciting educational game on rec systems. Take a look at the game here: whatsthealgorithm.com
#MozillaAwardee

The UK Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a computer scientist’s attempt to secure patents for inventions generated by his AI system

pymnts.com/cpi-posts/uk-s…

An important and timely monograph

This story is horrific, and basically confirms every one of the fears we had back in October when we knew the IDF was using AI—it's error-prone, there's scant human oversight, and it facilitates the mass rubber stamping of targets, of mass killing.

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

AI is not some Godzilla-like monster the UN needs to battle.

My Response to the UN Interim Report Consultation (New blog post)

joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/04/ai-is-…

💬 our insights from the @IELawSchool LawAhead Center’s symposium on #GenerativeAI and the future of work in the legal profession are featured in Expansión w/ Janine Berg & Lee Newman.
 
🔗 expansion.com/juridico/actua… (in Spanish) via Expansión Jurídico

The Governance of AI in Canada: Findings and Opportunities From a Review of 84 AI Governance Initiatives

Thrilled to share our new paper co-authored with blair & Dr. Kelly Lyons (she/her)! It's open access in Government Information Quarterly.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What is at stake with the increasing automation of public decision-making?

In a new article German Law Journal, Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School & AFAR researcher Francesca Ettore Palmiotto examines automated decision-making under EU law.

Read here:

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Thank you Afroditi Market, Joana Mendes and Transnational Legal Theory for hosting my piece on algorithmic machines, discrimination law and the analogy trap in a special issue on law’s agency in global governance.
📖doi.org/10.1080/204140…

In an evolving technological world, #AI  and other automated systems play a significant role in shaping criminal justice. LEAP member Francesca Ettore Palmiotto writes for Fair Trials about it: fairtrials.org/articles/news/…