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Regulating the Risks of AI
Artificial intelligence-based systems (AI) present risks that might be hard to predict or quantity. Policymakers in Europe and the United States have developed proposals to regulate AI risks.
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Recap of the Economics of Robots Conference
Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey
A survey of thousands of firms helps economists understand the spread of advanced technologies such as robotics. Advanced technologies are often used for automation, and generally improves productivity.
Bridging the Divide: Answering Internet Policy Questions with Cutting-Edge Network Measurement Algorithms, Datasets, and Platforms
Goldberg Room297 Law BuildingBerkeley, CA
Policymakers and researchers across disciplines are working to address questions regarding the state of internet access and digital equity. While regulators might use existing datasets to answer these policy questions, these datasets present challenges and complications that often lead to misleading conclusions. Gaps and errors in datasets will yield poor funding decisions, with effects that are likely to be felt especially severely in historically or intentionally underserved areas. There exists, in general, a gap between the data policymakers need and the data currently available.
To bridge the divide between researchers and policymakers working to close the digital divide, this workshop aims to bring together experts from both domains. The goal is to catalyze new ideas, collaborations, and solutions to counter internet inequity within the US and beyond.
Hosted bythe Berkeley Center For Law & Technology
Video Highlight
Erik Brynjolfsson: Why Using AI to Augment Human Capabilities Has More Value Than Automation"
Stanford Professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses the perils of focusing AI development on systems that outmatch human capabilities as opposed to systems that complement humans.
Recent Blog Posts
Recap of the Economics of Robots Conference
Barbara van Schewick Discusses Net Neutrality and the Future of the Internet
From the First Amendment to Section 230, Eric Goldman Explains the Online Speech Law in the U.S.
Recent Academic Article Summary
How Will Language Modelers like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries
A method that assesses which occupations will be most affected by artificial intelligence (AI) predicts that advances such as ChatGPT will have significant effects in education and financial services.
Language modeling advances will significantly affect occupations such as teaching and telemarketing.
Events
Bridging the Divide: Answering Internet Policy Questions with Cutting-Edge Network Measurement Algorithms, Datasets, and Platforms
Goldberg Room297 Law BuildingBerkeley, CA
Policymakers and researchers across disciplines are working to address questions regarding the state of internet access and digital equity. While regulators might use existing datasets to answer these policy questions, these datasets present challenges and complications that often lead to misleading conclusions. Gaps and errors in datasets will yield poor funding decisions, with effects that are likely to be felt especially severely in historically or intentionally underserved areas. There exists, in general, a gap between the data policymakers need and the data currently available.
To bridge the divide between researchers and policymakers working to close the digital divide, this workshop aims to bring together experts from both domains. The goal is to catalyze new ideas, collaborations, and solutions to counter internet inequity within the US and beyond.
Hosted bythe Berkeley Center For Law & Technology
Governance in Online Speech Leadership Series
Yale Law SchoolNew Haven, CT
The Governance in Online Speech Leadership Series is an interdisciplinary 3-day workshop that aims to connect those currently working at speech platforms in trust & safety, content moderation, content policy, integrity, and governance with the generation of people in industry, civil society, and academia who pioneered these fields as lawyers, policy-makers, project managers, engineers, stakeholders, and scholars.
Hosted bythe Berkman Klein Center
2023 Aspen Forum
St. Regis Aspen ResortAspen, CO
TPI Aspen brings together experts across business, industry, and government to discuss how tech policy and regulation impact daily life. Through panel discussions and fireside chats, participants discuss experiences with tech policy—what worked, what did not, what we still need to understand, and how policy can make technology work for everyone. Several TAP scholars will participate.
Hosted bythe Technology Policy Institute