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SMU LAW ACADEMY EXPERT MASTERCLASSES
The Lawyer’s Guide to Getting AI Right: New Technologies, Regulations, and Legal Issues
Assistant Professor Jerrold SOH
Deputy Director, Centre for Computational Law (CCLAW)
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law
SYNOPSIS
Over the past two decades, artificially intelligent systems have advanced from the domain of science fiction and fantasy into the real world. Increasingly businesses, governments, and law firms are exploring ways to both use and regulate AI. The European Union is in the late stages of deliberating a GDPR-scale Artificial Intelligence Act that establishes comprehensive obligations for (high-risk) AI systems marketed in the Union. Claims have been filed in America over the use of copyrighted materials for training generative AI systems. Japan, Singapore, and many other countries continue to publish new principles for the responsible use of AI systems, particularly in the financial sector. While technically voluntary, non-compliance here could raise reputational or legal complications. In nearly every area of law, questions have been raised over whether and how the old rules apply to these seemingly new technologies: do contractual mistakes made by AI systems vitiate? Who’s liable for automated vehicle accidents? What happens if ChatGPT defames?
This Masterclass aims to equip participants with a technical vocabulary and key mental frameworks for thinking rigorously about legal questions surrounding AI systems. We will first dive into the technology underlying contemporary (generative) AI systems and seek to understand how such systems, their ‘actions’, and these actions’ consequences, may be characterised in law. Armed with this conceptual understanding, we will then critically analyse emerging regulatory instruments such as the AI Act and consider how businesses may be advised to adapt. We will then examine ongoing litigation around AI liability and seek to elucidate lessons for how arguments surrounding AI systems may be crafted.
The SMU Law Academy Expert Masterclasses are advanced skills and case-study based programmes where participants will learn from the industry’s top experts in a specific area of practical importance. Typically taught in a face-to-face format, such sessions will help participants to acquire practical in-depth knowhow to aid their development. All the masterclass instructors are specially curated and are recognised as experts in their areas.
SPEAKER
Jerrold Soh is an Assistant Professor at Yong Pung How School of Law (YPHSL) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Computational Law. He specialises in the relationship between law and artificial intelligence and is centrally interested in how the legal system may not only regulate, but also meaningfully use, artificial intelligence. To this end, he has published research on automated vehicle liability, attribution rules for AI systems, expressing laws as code, automated text classification for court judgments, causal legal text analytics, case law citation networks, and the state of legal innovation in the Asia Pacific region. He regularly speaks at conferences, roundtables, and executive education classes on these topics. At YPHSL, he teaches the law of torts as well as an elective on Law and Technology. He holds degrees in Law and Economics from NUS and an LLM from Harvard Law School.
FEES
a. Early Bird Price (registration by 6 October 2023) Registration fee of S$291.60* (inclusive of GST) applies.
b. Regular Price (registration after 6 October 2023) Registration fee of S$324.00* (inclusive of GST) applies.
*Please note that there will be no refund of any fees should the participant cancel the registration/ fail to attend the event. However, registration is transferable. Notice of any change in participant should be sent to the Academy via email: smulawacademy [at] smu.edu.sg, by 13 October 2023.
SMU Law Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone any event. In such case, we will arrange for the refund of fees paid.
Registration will close on 13 October 2023.
Complimentary for SMU Law Full-time Faculty, Staff & Students. Please sign up with your SMU email address.
DATE
20 October 2023
TIME
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Registration starts at 1:15 PM)
SMU Law Academy has an established track record of providing the legal profession with high quality seminars and other opportunities to remain fully informed about contemporary legal developments in Singapore and beyond. Its carefully curated listing of seminars is developed with the profession’s multi-faceted needs in mind and meets the requirements of the CPD scheme. The Academy also administers the Auditing Scheme which enables members of the legal profession to consolidate and upgrade their understanding of the law by auditing courses in the School’s LL.B., J.D. and LL.M. programmes. For an overview of upcoming SMU Law Academy events, please click here.
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