Date/Time
Date(s) - Fri 18 September
16:00 - 17:30
Speaker: Alexandra Andhov (Director, Center for Advancing Law and Technology Responsibly, Auckland University)
Two documents govern AI, and neither governs AI. Corporate charters: OpenAI’s Foundation, Anthropic’s public benefit purpose, govern companies: control, boards, whose interests prevail. Model constitutions, including Anthropic’s constitution and OpenAI’s Model Spec, govern artifacts: what a model says, refuses, prioritises. One binds a corporation, the other a model. Nothing binds the technology itself. All of it is written unilaterally, revisable without notice, enforceable by no one.
Host: Andrew Lensen
These seminars consider AI’s social impacts in a range of areas, and discuss how AI can best be overseen to maximise positive impacts and minimise negative ones.
They are open to anyone who is interested in attending. Presenters don’t presuppose any technical background. If they present AI systems, they do it ‘from scratch’, in ways that should be accessible to everyone.
Discussing AI’s social impacts is a very interdisciplinary task, and speakers and participants come from many different backgrounds, in academia, government, industry and NGOs.
The series organiser is Ali Knott (ali.knott@vuw.ac.nz): please email Ali if you’d like to be added to the mailing list.