SFLC Panel Discussion: AI and Big Data in Government Policy (Moderated by Eben Moglen)
Channel: Software Freedom Law Center
Date: 2018-07-02

This recording comes from SFLC's conference titled, "AI and Big Data in Government Policy." This conference was held on May 3, 2018 at Columbia Law School. 

Event page: https://softwarefreedom.org/events/2018/ai-bigdata/
Full transcript: https://softwarefreedom.org/events/2018/ai-bigdata/transcript/

Panel members: 

-Paul Nemitz, Principle Advisor to the Director General for Justice and Consumer Protection of the European Commission

-Daniel J. Weitzner, Founding Director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab

-Eben Moglen, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the founder of the Software Freedom Law Center

Below, please find the original conference description: 
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On Thursday, May 3, 2018, 4:00pm to 6:00pm in Jerome Greene Annex, Software Freedom Law Center and Columbia Law School will present a public discussion on artificial intelligence and big data in government Policy. Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia Law School and President of the Software Freedom Law Center will moderate. Participating will be Daniel J. Weitzner, Principal Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, and Director of MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative, formerly of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Paul Nemitz, Principal Adviser to the European Commission with special responsibility for AI and Big Data.

It is impossible to look even one decade ahead in the world’s major societies without foreseeing seismic changes in the operation of government and the making of social policy that result from “big data” acquired by mass collection of human behavioral information. “Machine learning,” based on pattern discovery in this immense datascape, and autonomous software-based decision-making often now called “Artificial intelligence” will have profound consequences affecting the nature of democracy, the rule of law, and the structure and function of government institutions. If only we knew what those consequences will be.

In this conversation we will attempt to discover and discuss the forces—technical, political, and legal—that are about to reshape governments and societies worldwide.
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