We are happy to invite you to a public lecture, "Artificial Intelligence and the Law: An Uneasy Relationship", given by Professor Scott Veitch of the University of Hong Kong on 23 May at 16.00 at RGSL premises on Strēlnieku 4 k-2 at W42.
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The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models can be measured variously by their ubiquity, their attraction to investors, and by the legal problems they are causing. Some of these problems are genuinely new, others can be dealt with by the application of existing doctrines. The EU AI Act 2024 is a response to some of the challenges being faced by regulators, but from the opening Articles a number of contradictions are already apparent. This lecture analyses the continuities and discontinuities for legal regulation emerging with new digital technologies.
Scott Veitch is Paul KC Chung Professor in Jurisprudence at the University of Hong Kong. He has taught at universities in the UK and Australia and was previously a Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow. He is currently the holder of a Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Award from the Hong Kong University Grants Council and is researching the influence of digital technologies on law.