AI and Data Governance
El Pais interview with Dr Rachel Adams
In this interview, Dr Rachel Adams discusses the numbers gap for women in technology, the problematic gendering of VPAs and advises on ways to tackle the issue. Interview and photo used was originally published on El Pais. Why do VPA’s have female voices and female...
AI and Gender: Four Proposals for Future Research
We are delighted to share that Dr Nora Ni Loideain and Dr Rachel Adams contributed to an excellent and informative report, written by Clementine Collett and Sarah Dillon from the LCFI. The report underscores challenges to gender equality brought on by recent...
Female Servitude by Default and Social Harm: AI Virtual Personal Assistants, the FTC, and Unfair Commercial Practices
We are pleased to share the above working paper by our Director, Dr Nora Ni Loideain and Early Career Researcher, Dr Rachel Adams, which explores the social harms that emanate from the problematic gendering of Virtual Personal Assistants and the role of the...
Should companies based in authoritarian countries be permitted to invest in sensitive areas of another country’s economy?
This post was originally written by Anthony Wenton, Researcher at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and published on SC Magazine. 5G technology promises to be truly revolutionary. Not only will it make data-intensive communications virtually instantaneous, but it...
Call for Papers – Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and Challenges
Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and Challenges CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference on 22nd November 2019 at IALS in London, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications...
Technology in the twilight zone: What early use of the lie detector in court can tell us about machine learning now
This guest post was written by Marion Oswald, Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Winchester University. This post therefore...
Police use of technology impacting privacy rights
This guest post was written by Jamie Grace, Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University. This post therefore reflects the views of the author, and not those of the ILPC. The use of...
Gender in the World of Science
Is inequality holding back innovation in STEM? In the domain of STEM, where the glass ceiling is still a reality, how can women become the drivers of success in A.I., natural sciences and medicine via gender-inclusive research? Gender and STEM: An Overview In recent...
Event: ‘A Nightmare Scenario: Technology and Democracy’ at POLIS, University of Cambridge
On 22nd January the Forum on Geopolitics (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge hosted ‘A Nightmare Scenario: Technology and Democracy’, a lecture that addressed the effects technology could have on the functioning of contemporary democracy. Each of the speakers...
Women and AI: Harms, Impacts and Remedies
Date 7th March 2019, 17:30 to 18:45 Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Type Seminar Venue Conference Room, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Description Our daily interactions with AI-driven technologies –...