Talk Title: Full Stack AI Governance
Every time someone trains, deploys, or queries an ‘artificial intelligence’ system, whether they know it or not, they are implicating the practices and services of an enormous number of interlinked businesses in the AI ‘stack’. In this talk, Robert Gorwa will present early findings from his ongoing book project (with Michael Veale from UCL) on the emerging public-private regulatory practices shaping AI, focusing on what does, could, and should be done to prevent very real emergent forms of AI misuse. As more obligations and responsibilities are foisted on or taken up by the various intermediaries that facilitate access to AI systems (e.g. cloud providers, model hosts, internet infrastructure providers), the talk will introduce some of the extremely tricky tensions relating to technological control, generativity, analytic capacity, and privacy that lay ahead.
Speaker Biography:
Robert Gorwa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center, and a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He studies the politics of technology policy, with a special interest in platform governance and emerging socio-technical regulatory arrangements in the digital economy. He holds a DPhil from Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations, and is the author of The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation, which was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press.
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