ILPC Annual Conference 2024 AI and Power: Regulating Risk and Rights

CALL FOR PAPERS

ILPC Annual Conference 2024

AI and Power: Regulating Risk and Rights       

We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 9^th Annual Conference on 21-22 November 2024 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and supported by the School of Advanced Studies (SAS). You can read about our previous annual events here.

We are looking for high-quality contributions exploring how best to regulate and govern the use of AI, that are used across society, particularly their implications for human rights and the responsibilities of organisations. Including generative AI and other automated decision-making and data-driven systems.

Papers should address the development and future of regulation, policymaking, and governance within the United Kingdom, Europe, and/or internationally. Interdisciplinary and cross-sector papers are welcomed.

The conference organisers would like to encourage submissions from Early Career Researchers and post-doctoral researchers who have been awarded their PhD within the past five years.

Topics of interest include:

• AI technologies and innovation
• Algorithmic bias and human oversight
• Biometric identification and surveillance
• Disinformation and deepfakes
• End-to-end encryption and online content moderation
• EU AI Act
• UK Digital Information and Smart Data Bill
• Quantum computing and data security
• Virtual environments (AR, VR, the ‘metaverse’)

The ILPC Annual Conference will include the ILPC Annual Lecture 2024, and we are delighted to announce that this will be delivered by world-leading scholar danah boyd.

Danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the U.S. census to understand how data are made legitimate. Her previous studies have focused on media manipulation, algorithmic bias, privacy practices, social media, and teen culture. Her monograph "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" has received widespread praise. She founded the research institute Data & Society, where she currently serves as an advisor. She is also a trustee of the Computer History Museum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on the advisory board of Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Attendance (in person and online) will be free thanks to the support of our sponsors, although registration is required as places are limited. The best papers will feature in an open-access publication (following a peer-review process) to be published in 2025. Those giving papers will be invited to submit full draft papers for consideration by the organisers following the conference. Please highlight if you would like your paper to be considered for publication.

How to apply:        

Please send an abstract (250-300 words) and short bio to Eliza Boudier, IALS Fellowships and Administrative Officer: eliza.boudier@sas.ac.uk by the 6th September 2024. Let us know if you prefer to present in person at IALS (21 November) or online (22 November).

About the Information Law and Policy Centre

The Centre is based at IALS and was launched in 2015. Its mission is to undertake, promote, and facilitate, cross-disciplinary scholarship and research in the areas of information law and policy, domestically and internationally, in collaboration with a variety of organisations within the public and private sectors, and civil society.

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All welcome - this event if free to attend but booking is required.