Generative AI is like a Rorschach test for anxieties about technology–be they privacy, replacement of workers, bias and discrimination, surveillance, or intellectual property. Our panelists discuss how to address complex questions and risks in AI while protecting civil liberties and human rights online.
Join EFF Director of Policy and Advocacy Katharine Trendacosta, EFF Staff Attorney Tori Noble, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Co-Director Pam Samuelson, and Icarus Salon Artist Şerife Wong for a live discussion with Q&A.
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Thursday, November 13th (New Date!)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific
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About the Speakers
Katharine Trendacosta
Katharine is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at EFF, where she coordinates EFF's federal activism. Her areas of expertise are competition, broadband access, intellectual property, net neutrality, fair use, free speech online, and intermediary liability. Before joining EFF, Katharine spent many years as a writer and editor at the science fiction and science website io9. She has had her work appear in many other publications, including Vice, Defector, Gizmodo, and Jezebel. Katharine got a BA in history at Columbia University and a JD at USC Gould School of Law, doing work with the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic. It was Katharine’s experience in media that led to her going to law school with an eye to learning more about fair use and copyright law.
Tori Noble
Tori is a Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She works on a wide array of intellectual property and civil liberties issues arising from the use of emerging technologies. Tori came to EFF from Dentons US LLP, where she maintained an active litigation and counseling practice centered on First Amendment, privacy, and intellectual property issues. Prior to joining Dentons, Tori worked as a First Amendment fellow at First Look Institute, where she represented The Intercept and its reporters in public records cases and counseled journalists, editors, and filmmakers on a wide range of newsgathering, libel, privacy, and intellectual property issues. During law school, Tori interned at EFF and served as a Google Policy Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Tori holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Pam Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law. She is co-founder and president of Authors Alliance. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam. She is also Chair of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1996 after serving as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. She has also visited at Columbia, Cornell, Fordham, Harvard, and NYU Law Schools.
Şerife Wong
Şerife (Sherry) Wong is a Turkish-Kānaka Maoli artist investigating artificial intelligence, power, and belief through her practice at Icarus Salon. As an affiliate research scientist at UC Berkeley's Kidd Lab and affiliate of O'Neil Risk Consulting and Algorithmic Auditing, she conducts AI research. She chairs the board of OCEAN, defining accountability for algorithmic systems, and serves on the boards of Gray Area and Tech Inquiry. She is a frequent collaborator with Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences where she contributes to their new moral political economy project through conceptual art. Her work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Berggruen Institute, Mozilla, Omidyar, Salzburg Global, and Creative Capital. She's a member of the San Francisco art and DJ collective Brass Tax.
