Joanna Bryson, blatheringTo govern or to be governed? #CAIDP is at #cpdp2024 and as a dyslexic I’m super confused. But I’m speaking tomorrow at 11:50am on the @article19 panel. I already saw these awards online and spoke then, in early April.
Scorza gives another great acceptance speech, but since I only have my phone, please read my previous account of his previous speech https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson/112213190974700356 #cpdp2024 #CAIDP
The academic prize went to something my coauthor Meeri Haataja and I campaigned hard against, shoe-horning #fundamentalRights into the #AIAct. We thought making FR special to AI was a mistake, FR underlies ALL EU regulation, acting like it doesn’t undermines FR elsewhere in our law, and also motivates people trying to get exemptions from the AIA due to the heavy costs. Their speech implies those who opposed them were corporate sponsored. :-/
@edri gets the next award, this I’m fully behind, for their #ReclaimYourFace campaign. Also a nice memorial to Ross Anderson. #AIEthics #AIAct #biometrics
“People cannot be treated as walking barcodes.”
#cpdp2024 #CAIDP “we couldn’t give this award without this year without one for @bertuzluca “ so they gave him formally the business award, but really it’s for OUTSTANDING service to the community. Speech: “I learnt that lawmaking is not a private affair.” The trialog process is the main problem for EU #accountability/ #transparency. Decisions being announced on twitter not official channels. Now a journalist is an actor—a vector of public concern. #journalism #AIEthics
I can’t believe @bertuzluca didn’t get a standing ovation! But this is a privacy crowd, and people were more excited about the titanic success of @edri & #ReclaimYourFace
WOW, they have the guy who worked with @Katecrawford on the amazing #poeticsofencryption exhibition I’ve been raving about!
Vladan Joler, here’s his work https://extractivism.online/
Here’s me raving about the exhibition which ends this weekend, in Berlin!
https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson/112418641196355289 and https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson/111941337556164340
“This is from 2014, before algorithmic transparency was even a thing.” I’ll tell him about the 2011 #PrinciplesOfRobotics at the reception — after raving about how much I love his work.
It takes two years to do this art, he mines patents &c., the systems he is documenting changes by the day. His maps have been misused to say transparency is impossible! But he believes these “maps” are useful. (I love them!!!)
#cpdp2024 #CAIDP Joler used to only worry about #privacy, but these works brought him into understanding earths, inequalities. “Supply chains are also black boxes.” It’s about labour, nature, AND data centres. A computer and modem were all you needed for the previous revolution, but this one is built on $billions. He’s now explicitly critiquing #AIEthics for not considering more of the locations on his map. Thus new project…
Joler is now showing a piece I took a picture of last week to look up :-) #cpdp2024 #CAIDP #privacy #AIEthics
Thanks to @mraven whom I took to the exhibition last week for Signaling me Joler’s name & url.
Joler finishes up talking about his big piece #poeticsofencryption with @Katecrawford. Now there’s an hour long panel! THEN the reception …
“To govern or to be governed” takes on a different feel when you see the coffee room dominated by tiktok, google and EY. We’re back …
Contra the opening talk, it’s 11 minutes for a fit cyclist to get between buildings AND THEN UPSTAIRS! #cpdp2024
#cpdp2024 https://www.cpdpconferences.org/cpdp-panels/ai-and-the-brain-toward-an-eu-approach-to-governing-neurotechnology Al and the Neurotechnologyn EU Approach to Governing Neurotechnology
Pros & cons? Incredible enrichment, hopefully non invasive, but dystopian nightmare of surveillance, and also very likely to increase inequalities.
There was massive work done e.g. in the context of the human brain project, computational modelling etc. was essential to device design, but now people can recover the ability to walk in just 24 hours. (I think this is Parkinson’s?)
Moderator Raegan MacDonald says she's seen the patents fot the forthcoming airpods, there are like 3 or 4 new sensors for brain activity etc. Great. #privacy #cpdp2024
Arleen Salles: what if you employer require you to wear a headset to improve concentration? The mix with AI, how much of yourself, your internal privacy and thoughts [me thinking: do we even want to know what we ourselves are thinking? How might that break creativity?] She is talking about human dignity. #AIEthics
now transitioning to think about governance panels. Neuromarketing is happening, huge work has already gone into it. We discuss the continuum between AI and neurotech, some think not much more will be found beyond what AI already does. I bring up the bypassing of deliberate choice and the desire not to have conscious/legal awareness of how systems work, as an attempt to avoid liability.
Chile has amended the constitution to protect neural data. #privacy #cpdp2024 #AIEthics
Pawel Swieboda thinks the EU is really well prepared for governance. with all the GDPR, the product liability upgrades etc. There's a question of whether to use all this that exists or make a "neuro act.” Laura Lazaro Cabrera The #AIAct already coveres anything that produces output from context [YAY!!] so neurotech is covered. Still arguments about whether neuro data is personal data (??? yes?), medical data (some of it, both?) biometrics is instant high risk. #privacy #cpdp2024 #AIEthics
“Every time you have a product there is a risk surface" Cabrera going further on the medical device regulations, why the explicitly intended application should not be what determines the regulation. [So GDPR & AIAct are great places to start, rather than medical devices?]
Brazilian law is very explicit about fundamental rights, better than #AIAct (weird that she thinks AIA needs such when she was the one talking about the wonderful extant foundation of all EU law] #privacy #cpdp2024 #AIEthics
I really dislike the dissing of the #AIAct process. It went on for many years, there were many public consultations, then there was a last minute pile=on that bloated it with holes GAFAM can exploit. Now it's being cast as a poor process where there wasn't enough civil engagement. WHAT???
The panel is demanding not just opportunities but more invitations and conversations. Claimed it was just a website. Need to work with partners who are public engagement pros.
But I love the present conversation: about regressing to some normative mean by prosthetic enforced conformity. The elimination of the deaf communities. Parents or consent will overrule, or companies may just pay fees and move on.
Ha, he says educators should be involved. We absolutely were with the AIA. OK, now he's describing agile development, working with the users throughout product development, that I do agree with. #AIAct #privacy #cpdp2024 #AIEthics
Martiene@j2bryson @Katecrawford absolutely amazing. Saw the expo in Berlin again yesterday, for another deep dive the works #calculatingempires and #extractivism 👌🏻👏🏻