May 4, 2018 | Durham, N.C./Duke Law School
Machine learning algorithms can deliver remarkable forecasting power and speed through their abilities to learn and adapt. Artificial intelligence (AI) is being employed in the private sector to optimize production processes, supply chain management, marketing, pricing, and other business functions. But apart from national security and law enforcement, productive uses in the public sector have received less attention, despite recognition that the administrative state’s foremost challenges include efficient processing of ever-increasing amounts of data, and adapting to new information over time. At the same time that AI may warrant regulation to prevent its risks, we also should consider the value of harnessing AI to assist in improving regulation and public services.
The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law, the Duke Center on Law & Technology, the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, and the Rethinking Regulation Program at The Kenan Institute for Ethics, held this joint conference, "AI in the Administrative State: Applications, Innovations, Transparency, Adaptivity," at Duke University to explore promising uses of AI and the challenges they pose in administering diverse governmental functions involving science, technology, health and intellectual property.
For information, contact innovationpolicy@law.duke.edu.
Agenda
Introductions
Stuart Benjamin, Duke Law School, The Center forInnovation Policy at Duke Law
Nita Farahany, Duke Law School, Duke Initiative for
Science & Society
Jeff Ward, Duke Law School, Duke Center on Law & Technology
Jonathan Wiener, Duke Law School, Rethinking Regulation Program at The Kenan Institute for Ethics
Overviews
Overview: TechnologyEd Felten, Princeton University Slides
Overview: Law
Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania Law School Slides
Discussant:
Vince Conitzer, Duke University
Moderator: Lori Bennear, Duke University Nicholas School, Rethinking Regulation Program at The Kenan Institute for Ethics
Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service
Moderators: Stephen Merrill, The Center for Innovation
Policy at Duke Law, and
Stuart Benjamin, Duke Law School, The Center for
Innovation Policy at Duke Law
Panelists
Lori Bennear, Duke University Nicholas School, Rethinking Regulation Program at The Kenan Institute for EthicsMichael Clamann, Duke University
Bryant Walker Smith, University of South Carolina Law
Moderator: Jeff Ward, Duke Law School, Duke Center on
Law & Technology
Panelists
Sameer Antani, NIH/U.S. National Library of Medicine SlidesJohn Daley, Watson Health
Slides (shared with Julie Daughtry)
Julie Daughtry, Watson Health
Nicholson Price, Michigan Law
Moderators: Nita Farahany, Duke Law School, Duke
Initiative for Science & Society, and
Arti Rai, Duke Law School, The Center for Innovation
Policy at Duke Law
Moderator: Jonathan Wiener, Duke Law School, Rethinking Regulation Program at The Kenan Institute for Ethics
Group discussion