Events

The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle brings together staff and students across the University of Warwick who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.

Through reading groups, events, and policy conversations the group aims to develop cross faculty collaborations that foreground Warwick’s law in context, and interdisciplinary research culture.

For more information on the group, please contact: Dr Siddharth De Souza (Siddharth.De-Souza@warwick.ac.uk) or Dr Serena Natile (Serena.Natile@warwick.ac.uk).

For logistical information about the events, please contact globe@warwick.ac.uk

Theme: The Global South and Global and Local AI Governance

Thursday, 4 December, 12pm – 2pm

S.2.09, Warwick Law School, Social Sciences Building

Suggested Readings: The Oxford Handbook of AI GovernanceLink opens in a new window by Justin B. Bullock (ed.) et al., specially Section 9

We will discuss global and local aspects of AI Governance from the perspective of the Global South. We will be continuing from discussions in the previous two sessions dealing with Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and Christoph Becker’s Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability. While the whole book provides a background on AI governance, I suggest four specific chapters as our focus for a critical exploration.

We will consider a number of questions:

1. What should be involved in AI regulation? (Chapter 13) (cf discussions in our previous two sessions)

2. What has been the role of EU AI regulation on global South regulation? (Chapter 13)

3. To what extent does the the global AI competition especially between the US and China affect global regulation? (Chapter 43)

4. Does this provide space for the South to develop their own strategies? (Chapter 48)

5. Is it possible for the South to decolonise its regulation strategies? (Chapter 48)

Lunch will be provided.

Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.