Time and date: Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: The Boardroom (W353), Level 3, Forgan Smith Building, The University of Queensland, St Lucia
and via Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/8534698010
About the event
The seminar will discuss Dr Paul Burgess’s recent book, AI and the Rule of Law: The Necessary Evolution of a Concept (Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury 2024). The book is a timely intervention in the emerging debate about the challenges that use of AI presents to the rule of law. We will be joined by Professor Anna Huggins (QUT). The seminar will consider the book’s contribution to addressing this problem.
About the book
This book considers the ways in which the concept of the Rule of Law will need to evolve in order to ensure that the exercise of power by Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not become arbitrary and does not proceed unchecked. It presents the Rule of Law and its impact on the past and the present; it considers what AI is, what it does, and what it might become in future; and it looks at how AI will need to be harnessed to allow power to be exercised more effectively in the future.
The book argues that the Rule of Law has for centuries been the concept that protects against the arbitrary exercise of power. However, the exercise of power by AI unchecked by humans strains the concept's ability to provide this protection.
About the speakers
Dr Paul Burgess
Faculty of Law, Monash University
Paul is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. Paul teaches Public Law and units relating to AI and technology. His teaching reflects his research, as he spends most of his time trying to bring his work on the Rule of Law into conversation with his work on AI.
Professor Anna Huggins
Professor, QUT School of Law
Anna Huggins is a Professor in the QUT School of Law and the Director of Studies (Law). Her primary research interests lie in the fields of regulation and compliance, including digital regulation and compliance. Anna is currently the lead Chief Investigator of an Australian Research Council Linkage Project addressing the need for more sophisticated approaches to digitising compliance processes in the financial services sector.
Venue
And via Zoom.