CALL FOR PAPERS
ILPC Annual Convention 2024 – AI and Energy: Regulating Danger and Rights
We’re happy to announce this name for papers for the Data Legislation and Coverage Centre’s 9th Annual Convention on 21-22 November 2024 hosted by the Institute of Superior Authorized Research (IALS) and supported by the College of Superior Examine (SAS). You possibly can examine our earlier annual occasions right here.
We’re searching for high-quality contributions exploring how greatest to manage and govern using AI, which might be used throughout society, significantly their implications for human rights and the duties of organisations. Together with generative AI and different automated decision-making and data-driven programs. Papers ought to deal with the event and way forward for regulation, policymaking, and governance inside the UK, Europe, and/or internationally. Interdisciplinary and cross-sector papers are welcomed.
The convention organisers wish to encourage submissions from Early Profession Researchers and post-doctoral researchers who’ve been awarded their PhD throughout the previous 5 years.
Matters of curiosity embrace:
- AI applied sciences and innovation
- Algorithmic bias and human oversight
- Biometric identification and surveillance
- Disinformation and deepfakes
- Finish-to-end encryption and on-line content material moderation
- EU AI Act
- UK Digital Data and Sensible Knowledge Invoice
- Quantum computing and knowledge safety
- Digital environments (AR, VR, the ‘metaverse’)
The ILPC Annual Convention will embrace the ILPC Annual Lecture 2024, and we’re delighted to announce that this might be delivered by world-leading scholar danah boyd.
Danah boyd is a Companion Researcher at Microsoft Analysis and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown College. Her analysis focuses on the intersection of expertise and society, with a watch to how structural inequities form and are formed by applied sciences. She is presently conducting a multi-year ethnographic examine of the U.S. census to grasp how knowledge are made authentic. Her earlier research have targeted on media manipulation, algorithmic bias, privateness practices, social media, and teenage tradition. Her monograph “It’s Sophisticated: The Social Lives of Networked Teenagers” has acquired widespread reward. She based the analysis institute Knowledge & Society, the place she presently serves as an advisor. She can be a trustee of the Pc Historical past Museum, a member of the Council on Overseas Relations, and on the advisory board of Digital Privateness Data Middle.
Attendance (in individual and on-line) might be free because of the help of our sponsors, though registration is required as locations are restricted. The very best papers will function in an open-access publication (following a peer-review course of) to be printed in 2025. These giving papers might be invited to submit full draft papers for consideration by the organisers following the convention. Please spotlight if you want your paper to be thought of for publication.
Tips on how to apply:
Please ship an summary (250-300 phrases) and brief bio to Eliza Boudier, IALS Fellowships and Administrative Officer: eliza.boudier@sas.ac.uk by the sixth September 2024. Tell us in case you choose to current in individual at IALS (21 November) or on-line (22 November).
Concerning the Data Legislation and Coverage Centre
The Centre is predicated at IALS and was launched in 2015. Its mission is to undertake, promote, and facilitate, cross-disciplinary scholarship and analysis within the areas of data regulation and coverage, domestically and internationally, in collaboration with quite a lot of organisations inside the private and non-private sectors, and civil society.
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