Researching Chinese law and online courts at Newcastle Law School. Comparative law and new technologies. Principal Investigator at Jagiellonian University. Yenching Scholar.
Excited to share the insightful video presentation during the AI and Law Workshop on 16 June 2023 "A Critical Reflection on the UK White Paper on Regulating Artificial Intelligence Technology" by Dr. Tanya Krupiy from Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University
🔗 Link to the video: youtube.com/watch?v=l_EWkkku7-k
Nice summary of the OpenAI hearing but McNaughtons two options of what's going on - advance regulatory capture by tech or admission of dangerous product out of control - surely ignore the obvious 3rd interpn of lord, give me regulation but not yet? When will LLMs be "advanced" enough to need this alleged intervention? When they hit mythical AGI?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/20/when-the-tech-boys-start-asking-for-new-regulations-you-know-somethings-up-ai-chatgpt?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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@BKCHarvard is thrilled to announce @jacindaardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, will join the Center as its first @knightfdn Tech Governance Leadership Fellow.
Ardern will work on the Christchurch Call mission & challenges with AI governance.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-04/jacinda-ardern-joins-berkman-klein-center
https://twitter.com/BKCHarvard/status/1650952821104164864
My "Introduction to Comparative Law" (2nd edn) is coming out. Here is a (very) short video of the book. #law #comparativelaw
China now leading the world on regulating generative AI ( thanks, amazing @ISzpotakowski ), with responsibility clearly placed on providers . We can debate motivations and enforcement but this is still significant
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According to Article 5 of the Draft: Providers of generative AI services assume responsibility as content producers and, if personal information is involved, also assume statutory responsibility as per…
https://twitter.com/ISzpotakowski/status/1645688842328981506
We need more of this. The waste of time in academe in competition between perfectly decent applicants is insane
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We've opened the call for our @BritishAcademy_ small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold.
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-leverhulme-small-research-grants/?utm_source=new…
https://twitter.com/HetanShah/status/1646036918285500421
can anyone verify this approach? (h/t to @iszpotakowski
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ChatGPT currently hallucinates fake references. Here is my secret on how to use it to get 100% accurate references. 🧵
@MushtaqBilalPhD #AcademicChatter
https://twitter.com/dr_asadnaveed/status/1642055670798368768
Check out this new fascinating article by Dr Tanya Krupiy from
@ncl_lawfutures ! Tanya explores the daily life of an artificial intelligence system from the perspective of an imaginary AI software EasyLife. Link: https://medium.com/@krupiy.tanya/back-to-reality-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-artificial-intelligence-system-d981c79c91db
#AI #digitalpolicy #lawandfuturesresearch #law #lawtech #lawprofs
‘Bias in Algorithms – Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination’, report by FRA, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2022/bias-algorithm #law #eu #ai #tech #bias #discrimination #humanrights
Good news — “in 2023 the Ministry of Justice will launch a wide-ranging call for evidence exploring the themes of open justice, access to information and data, and transparency across our courts and tribunals” https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmjust/1040/report.html #legalInformatics #openJustice
The deadline for full applications is 15 March 2023 and the starting date is September 2023 or January 2024. Link: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=law016
Newcastle Law School is seeking candidates for fees only studentships for PhD projects. Applicants are welcome to contact the Convenor of the research group dr Ilke Turkmendag or the Deputy Convenor @iszpotakowski to discuss their proposals and how they align with our priorities.
Happy New Year and best wishes to everyone in 2023!
Three laws took effect today, including the revised Women's Rights and Interests Protection Law.
https://npcobserver.com/2022/12/31/npc-calendar-january-2023/
Our preview of the NPC Standing Committee's upcoming session, scheduled for Dec. 27–30:
""The advantage of having virtual artists is that, while K-pop stars often struggle with physical limitations, or even mental distress because they are human beings, virtual artists can be free from these."
Yeh or maybe they just don't ask for royalties??? 🤣 V credulous piece. @goanta
For events and updates about Law & Innovation in Scotland 🏴 follow @LawScottish, the Mastodon account of the Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN), a research network funded by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, led by Rossana Ducato, Martin Kretschmer and me, bringing together experts from academia, legal professions, industry and digital rights groups. Check out our website www.scotlin.org for newsletter and next events such as the SCOTLIN2023 conference⚖️🤖
#lawfedi #scotlandfedi #fediscot
Waiting (anxiously?) for Geoffrey Samuel's Review Essay of my 'Interdisciplinary Comparative Law' (Elgar 2022) to be published in the Journal of Comparative Law (2022) vol 17. #comparativelaw #legalstudies #lawprofs
Hello. I'm a lecturer at Newcastle Law School. I currently work on feminist approaches to global constitutionalism drawing on #utopias, #manifestos, #literature @PIL
@jackiegardina I should mention that we’ve just started our own LLM in Law and Emerging Technologies, which is designed to give an interdisciplinary understanding of regulatory challenges, so I suspect there may be a lot of room for collaboration if there is interest!
#lawacademics working on #lawandtech? Let’s be friends!
