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Organised by the 香港六合彩中特网 Centre for Law, Economics & Society and the 香港六合彩中特网 Institute for Labour Law

Speaker: Professor Hamid R. Ekbia, Indiana University
Chairs: Professor Ioannis Lianos, 香港六合彩中特网 CLES, and Nicolas Countouris, 香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Labour Law

About the talk

Artificial Intelligence is back 鈥� in new shape and with a vengeance. Abundantly enabled by the marriage between Big Data, automation, and machine learning algorithms, the new AI promises to transform all aspects and arenas of human life 鈥� from science, economy, and war to work, romance, and law. Some of these promises are tenable, others practically (and morally) dubious, and still others simply fictitious. To discern among them, we have to keep AI in check, asking not what computers can do, but what we should do in order to make computers work in meaningful ways, how we should change as individuals, groups, and societies, and at what cost. This talk will explore these questions through the examination of a few areas of AI application. The key argument is that these applications can penetrate human affairs to the extent that we let the digital 鈥渇orm鈥� govern our lives. We will discuss some of the ways that law and varieties of legal thought can play a role here.

About the speaker:

Hamid Ekbia is Professor of Informatics, International Studies, and Data Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction. He is interested in the political economy of computing and in how technologies mediate cultural, socio-economic, and geo-political relations of modern societies. His most recent book (MIT Press, 2017) examines computer-mediated modes of value extraction in capitalist economies, and聽 his earlier book (Cambridge University Press, 2008) was a critical-technical analysis of Artificial Intelligence. He is the co-author of Reconsidering Access: Individual Travails and Asymmetric Gains (MIT Press, 2019), co-editor of a volume titled (MIT Press, 2016), an Otto M酶nsted Visiting Professor in the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School, and a Senior Fellow at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna, Austria.