Amid mounting legal and financial strife, mainstream platform companies—from Meta and YouTube to TikTok and Twitch--are doubling down on their idealistic framing of the digital “Creator Economy.” But the image of social media as an entrepreneurial Promised Land ...
Decisions about policies when using widely-deployed technologies, including social media and more recently, generative AI, are often made in a centralized and top-down fashion. Yet these systems are used by millions of people, with a diverse set of preferences ...
Using driverless cars, artificial intelligence, cochlear implants, nuclear power and other examples, this talk will walk through various hurdles to the successful legal analysis and governance of emerging technology. The talk will identify law's unique role in channeling ...
The opacity, unpredictability, and inscrutability of recent computer systems continues to challenge users and regulators. While one approach has been to work toward explainability and transparency, this tactic ...
Scientists envision AI as a way to overcome human cognitive limitations across the research pipeline, improving productivity and objectivity. But proposed AI solutions can themselves exploit our cognitive limitations, making us vulnerable to an illusion of ...
Algorithmic predictions are increasingly used to inform the allocations of goods and services in the public sphere. In these domains, predictions serve as a means to an end. They provide stakeholders with insights into the likelihood of future events in order to improve decision making quality, and ...