DTA Webinar Shielding AI Code From Government Review: What Could Go Wrong?
Shielding AI Code From Government Review:
What Could Go Wrong?
April 11 at 9am Eastern
In this webinar, hosted by the Digital Trade Alliance, we delve into the effects of protecting source code of software against disclosure and access by government as espoused in international trade law. In order to better gauge the effects for domestic regulation, we review the concepts of source code and algorithm and the ways in which they show up across the fields of software engineering, theoretical computer science, and AI. We then refine these technical use-cases of source code and algorithms into a simple model of how code is regulated, with a discussion of the implications for AI regulation and AI trade. This will provide essential input for our discussion about how the protection of source code of software in digital trade law shapes domestic approaches to interoperability, transparency and accountability of digital technologies and algorithmic systems.
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Speakers:
Joshua Tan, Co-founder and Executive Director @Metagov, Joshua Tan is a mathematician and computer scientist at Oxford whose research focuses on applications of higher mathematics to the design of intelligent systems. He is co-founder and executive director of Metagov, a nonprofit research collective building standards and infrastructure for online governance.
Kristina Irion, Associate Professor @Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. Kristina’s current research agenda focuses on the governance of transnational digital technologies and global data value chains from the perspective of European law and international economic law (see for publications here). She is the Director of the Annual IViR Summer Course on Privacy Law and Policy, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Computer Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) International Conferences and the International Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Dr. Irion frequently provides expertise to the European Parliament and the Commission, the Council of Europe, the OECD, national governments as well as civil society organizations.
Benjamin White, PhD Researcher @Bournemouth University’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management. Benjamin is co-founder of Knowledge Rights 21 an Arcadia funded project to promote copyright reform and open access in Europe for the benefit of research and education. He also acts as an advisor on the UK government’s Intellectual Property Research Excellence Advisory Group. He has spoken widely on copyright law and database rights, including at the Internet Governance Forum and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. He has also been called as an expert witness to speak to the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament, as well as the Business Industry and Skills Select Committee the UK Parliament.