Webinar with Congressman Ro Khanna: Challenges in IT Law and Governance

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On Friday, February 19, the AI Pulse project hosted a web conversation on current issues in IT Governance with Congressman Ro Khanna, a leading progressive thinker on a wide range of law and technology issues in the United States Congress. Rep. Khanna represents California's 17th district in the House of Representatives, where he chairs the Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and serves as Deputy Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He is a passionate advocate of using technology to bring economic opportunity to rural and small-town America. In 2018, at the request of Speaker Pelosi, he authored a widely praised set of principles for an Internet Bill of Rights. Prior to serving in Congress, Rep. Khanna worked as an intellectual-property lawyer and served in the Obama Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Yale.
Joining Rep. Khanna in conversation were Professors Eugene Volokh and Ted Parson of the UCLA School of Law. The conversation ranged over a wide set of law and technology issues, including market concentration and antitrust in the IT sector, first-amendment issues associated with online speech and content moderation, and online privacy regulation and related consumer online rights.
The recording of the event is available here.
We plan a continuing series of informal web conversations on various interesting and fun questions related to the societal impacts, governance, and ethics of AI/ML and related data and computational technologies. Stay tuned for these – or to be added to our mailing list for announcements of future events, please send an email to <EMAIL> post Webinar with Congressman Ro Khanna: Challenges in IT Law and Governance first appeared on AI Pulse.


Webinar: The Filter Bubble

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On Friday November 6, the AI Pulse project hosted a web conversation on The Filter Bubble – or maybe it's The Echo Chamber: the notion that we are living in social worlds that are increasingly narrow, tightly connected, and homogeneous – in the people we interact with, the ideas and values we engage, even what we believe, and the facts we experience about the world. In various accounts, this might be caused by the mere fact of interacting online, or by specific design and algorithmic choices of the social media platforms we interact with. And crucially, this might occur without our active choice, or without or even being aware that it is happening. We considered a few big questions about the Filter Bubble. First, is it a real thin, and is it meaningfully different from familiar processes of social interaction? To the extent it is real and different, what is causing it? What effects is it having, for our social, economic, and political lives – AND if it's doing bad things, what can be done about it?
The conversation was kicked off by Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. Joining the conversation with Jane were David Brin, astrophysicist and celebrated author of science fiction and non-fiction futurist speculation; Mark Lemley, Professor of Law at Stanford University and director of Stanford's Program in Law, Science and Technology; Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at UCLA; and Ted Parson, Professor of Law at UCLA and Director of the AI Pulse Project.
The recording of the event is available here.
We plan a continuing series of informal web conversations on various interesting and fun questions related to the societal impacts, governance, and ethics of AI/ML and related data and computational technologies. Stay tuned for these – or to be added to our mailing list for announcements of future events, please send an email to <EMAIL> post Webinar: The Filter Bubble first appeared on AI Pulse.

Webinar: The Filter Bubble


Webinar: Alternative Payment and Business Models for the Internet

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The AI Pulse project hosted a web conversation on Friday, September 18, on the topic of alternative payment and business models for the Internet. Is the now-dominant advertising model fundamentally flawed or doomed? And if so, what alternative approaches are most promising? In particular, does the model of small (mini, micro, nano) payments for information content have promise, despite the widespread criticism it has attracted and the failure of several early attempts to implement it?
The conversation was kicked off by David Brin, astrophysicist and celebrated author of science fiction and non-fiction futurist speculation. Joining the conversation with David were Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law at the University of Arizona; Mark Lemley, Professor of Law at Stanford University and director of Stanford's Program in Law, Science and Technology; and Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at UCLA. UCLA Law Professor and AI Pulse Project Director Ted Parson moderated.
The recording of the event is available here.
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