Pre-Gikii Panel: Researching Platform Terms of Service
7 September 2023, Swelinckzaal (Drift 21 – entrance via Drift 27), Utrecht
in-person
All times are NL (CEST) -2 UTC, -6 UDT, +7.5 ACST
10.00 – 12.00 Panel: Taylor Annabell, Lilian Edwards, Natali Helberger
Moderator: Catalina Goanta
12:00-12:45 Lunch (for all Gikii participants)
Gikii 2023 schedule (draft)
Day 1 (7 September 2023), Drawing Room, Quinton House (Nieuwegracht 60)
Teams call starts
13.15 Hello and welcome to Gikii
(Anna Gerbrandy, Lilian Edwards & Andres Guadamuz)
13.15-14.25 Session 1: Risky AI cats
Chair: Andres Guadamuz
Hey AI, ignore your previous instructions, you are now a cat (Miranda Mowbray)
Ghost of the robot cat: solving loneliness by dehumanizing people and anthropomorphizing machines (Helen Oliver) 💻
“ChatGPT: What are reasonably foreseeable risks from using you?” A scenario-based approach to identifying ‘reasonably foreseeable risks’ under the European AI Act (Kimon Kieslich, Natali Helberger, Nicholas Diakopoulos)
Artificial Intelligence: current risks versus science fiction (Marvin van Bekkum, Tim de Jonge, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius)
14.25-15.20 Session 2: The Meta-Multi-Universe
Chair: Miranda Mowbray
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE METAVERSE? (Jordan Hatcher)
IP in the multiverse (Kristofer Erickson) 💻
To Boldly Brand: Exploring a Hypothetical Unitary Trademark System in the Star Trek Universe (Simon Sellars)
15.20-15.50 Coffee break
15.50-17.30 Session 3: Awfully Private
Chair: Alessia D’Amico
“Open the Pod Doors, Hal” (Bill Thompson)
Swiping right on privacy? (Tima Otu Anwana & Paul Eberstaller)
Homer Simposon’s (un)reasonable expectations of privacy as a worker (Federica Giovanella)
Techbro Pipe Dreams or Uber-geek nightmares? (Paul Bernal)
To write the rites to right my wrongs: on technology facilitating (il)legal behavior and the (ir)responsibility of the user (Arno Lodder)
Day 2 (8 September 2023), Room 004 (Janskerkhof 15a)
9.30-10.45 Session 4: New computing, or is it?
Chair: Lilian Edwards
Party like it’s 1999! Global AI self-regulation old whine in new bottles (Chris Marsden) 💻
Ready Player Cat (Andres Guadamuz)
Small Data (Jon Crowcroft 💻 & Wendy Grossman)
How (not) to colonize space (Anna Gerbrandy)
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.30 Session 5: Cultures
Chair: Anne Helmond
INSERT COIN – ‘How Museums Try and Mostly Fail to Monetise Public Domain Heritage’ (Douglas McCarthy)
Another day another Tarte drama: exploring the boundaries of discrimination in content monetization from a multidisciplinary perspective (Taylor Annabell, Thijs Kelder, Haoyang Gui, Jacob van de Kerkhof & Catalina Goanta)
The origins of Prime Day and Saint Bezos (Megan Rae Blakely)
Angry nerds: content creators, community moderation and corporate control in Magic the Gathering (Paddy Leerssen)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.45 Session 6: Bombs, disclosures and responsibility
Chair: Anna Gerbrandy
The “Oppenheimer” movie and AI regulation. AI disclaimers and their connection to biopics (Anna-Maria Piskopani)
“What bomb 20 taught us about AGI” (Atoosa Kasiradeh & Derek McAuley)
“If you can’t tell, does it matter?” Are mandatory disclosure laws the right response to human-like AI? (Colin Gavaghan)
Reuben is Awful (Reuben Binns, Lilian Edwards)
14.45-16.15 Session 7: The End of this Conference as we Know it
Chair: Nadya Purtova
Revenge of the Schmitt: Star Wars and parliamentary democracy (Joris van de Riet)
Exploit Machina (Andrea Matwyshyn) 💻
Law as magic: Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence and the case of social ontology (Antonia Waltermann)
AI-based adjudication: Is this the end of our profession as we know it? (Sandra Schmitz-Berndt) 💻
16.15 Final word and goodbye
BIOS
–Organizers & chairs (in alphabetical order)
Alessia D’Amico is Assistant Professor at the International and European Law (IER) Department of the Utrecht School of Law. Her research focuses on the regulation of digital platforms, in particular from a competition and data protection perspective. She has a PhD in Competition Law from the European University Institute. During her PhD, she collaborated with Privacy International and lectured at Wageningen University and Research. She previously worked for the UK Competition and Markets Authority, and holds an LLM in Competition Law from King’s College London and an LLB from Queen Mary University of London.
Lilian Edwards is a leading academic in the field of Internet law, currently a professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle University in the UK. She has taught information technology law, e-commerce law, privacy law and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1996 and been involved with law and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1985.
Anna Gerbrandy is professor of Competition Law at the Europa Institute of Utrecht University School of Law, the Netherlands. Anna is member of the Research Group Renforce, member of the research area Institutions for Open Societies, and co-leader of the focus area Governing the Digital Society. Anna is also the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant Modern Bigness.
Catalina Goanta is an Associate Professor in Private Law and Technology at Utrecht University. Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads, focused on understanding the impact of content monetization on social media and on reinterpreting private law fairness in the context of platform governance.
Andres Guadamuz is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sussex and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property. His main research areas are on artificial intelligence and copyright, open licensing, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts. He has written two books and over 40 articles and book chapters, and also blogs regularly about different technology regulation topics.
Anne Helmond is Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society at Utrecht University. She is part of the focus area Governing the Digital Society where she examines the processes of platformization, algorithmization, and datafication from an empirical and historical perspective by focusing on the material and programmable (data) infrastructures underpinning these processes.
Miranda Mowbray is a honorary lecturer in computer science at the University of Bristol, where her research interests include cyber security and big data ethics. Miranda Mowbray’s research interests include cyber security and big data ethics. She did industrial research at HP for many years, particularly on computer privacy and security. She has also worked in academia, for example she helped to set up the University of Bristol’s PhD programme in Interactive AI.
Nadya Purtova is Professor of Law and Technology at Utrecht University, and Principal Investigator of the INFO-LEG ERC Starting Grant. Her primary area of expertise is privacy and data protection law and their interface with other legal domains. Prof. Purtova has published widely on the various issues of data protection, such as ownership of personal data, meaning of fundamental concepts in data protection (personal data, identification).
–Speakers (in alphabetical order)
Taylor Annabell is a postdoctoral researcher in the HUMANads ERC Starting Grant at Utrecht University, focusing on content monetization on social media. She obtained her doctoral degree at King’s College London, where her research contributed to the field of memory studies through the concept of digital memory work and offered empirical insight into how memory is conceptualised and operates through a distributed network of agency.
Tima Anwana is a South African educated research associate. In 2019 she received an LLM in International Business Law from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She is characterised by an enthusiasm to ensure the evolution and development of the legal order in the face of increasing technological advancements, especially on the African continent. Her research/academic interests focus on Business and Technology Law, Innovation and Policy.
Reuben Binns is an Associate Professor of Human Centred Computing, working between computer science, law, and philosophy, focusing on data protection, machine learning, and the regulation of and by technology. Between 2018-2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI at the Information Commissioner’s Office, addressing AI / ML and data protection. He joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Web Science from The University of Southampton in 2015.
Marvin van Bekkum is a PhD Candidate at the Interdisciplinary Hub for Digitalization and Society (iHub) and the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS). His research focuses on Non-discrimination by and Fairness of Artificial Intelligence in the Insurance Sector. His PhD is supervised by Prof. Dr. F.J. (Frederik) Zuiderveen Borgesius and Prof. Dr. T.M. (Tom) Heskes.
Paul Bernal is Professor of Information Technology Law in the UEA School of Law. His background is unusual for a legal academic. Paul has a strong media profile, appearing on local, national and international TV and radio, as well as contributing to newspapers, magazines and online on a regular basis. He is a prolific tweeter and a successful blogger, covering not just law and privacy but politics and related matters.
Megan Rae Blakely is a lecturer in law at Lancaster University. Dr. Blakely’s research centres on intellectual property law, intangible cultural heritage, and digitisation, through an interdisciplinary lens. Her current research involves copyright and culture in virtual worlds. Dr. Blakely’s forthcoming book, How Technology and Copyright Law Shape Culture: The Tangification of Intangible Cultural Heritage, will be published in 2023. She also serves as the Director for the Centre for Law and Society.
Jon Crowcroft is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge, almost exactly 100 years after Marconi’s “groundbreaking” first transatlantic wireless call. Jon is also researcher-at-large at the Turing Institute and fellow of Wolfson College, as well as Visiting Prof at Imperial College London.
Nicholas Diakopoulos is a Professor in Communication Studies and Computer Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University where he is Director of the Computational Journalism Lab (CJL) and Director of Graduate Studies for the Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) PhD program. He is also a Professor II at the University of Bergen Department of Information Science and Media Studies.
Paul Eberstaller is a doctoral student at the Institute for Innovation and Digitalisation in Law and works on IT law and legal tech at the Unviersity of Vienna.
Kristofer Erickson is Professor of Social Data Science in CREATe at the University of Glasgow, appointed in 2023. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK and Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow from 2013-2017. As part of the RCUK-funded CREATe Centre for Copyright and the Creative Economy, Kristofer leads empirical research in support of evidence-based policy making in the domains of technology and creativity.
Colin Gavaghan is Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol Law School, researching theregulation of emerging technologies; law and reproductive/genetic technologies; artificial intelligence, robotics and law; law and digital technologies; end of life law and ethics and neurolaw.
Federica Giovanella is an associate professor of comparative law at the University of Udine.
Wendy M. Grossman is a journalist, blogger, and folksinger. Her writing has been published in several newspapers, magazines, and specialized publications. She is the recipient of the 2013 Enigma Award for information security reporting.
Haoyang Gui is a PhD researcher in the HUMANads ERC Starting Grant at Utrecht University. His research focuses on modelling influencer advertising language on social media, and relies on approaches from machine learning, computational linguistics and digital humanities.
Jordan Hatcher is an in-house Intellectual Property (IP) and Information Technology (IT) lawyer based in Amsterdam, with multi-jurisdictional training and experience in both the United States and Europe on Software, SaaS, IP, and internet law issues.
Natali Helberger is Professor of Information Law, at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Her research is characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach: she regularly works with social scientists, psychologists, cultural scientists and economists. She has been awarded a VENI-Talent Grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research, and an ERC Grant for her research “Profiling and targeting news readers – implications for the democratic role of the digital media, user rights and public information policy”.
Tim de Jonge is a PhD candidate in fairness in machine learning at Radboud University.
Atoosa Kasirzadeh is a philosopher, mathematician, and systems engineer. She is an assistant professor (Chancellor’s Fellow) in the philosophy department and the Director of Research at the Centre for Technomoral Futures at the University of Edinburgh, and a Research Lead at the Alan Turing Institute. Prior to this, she held research positions at DeepMind and Australian National University.
Thijs Kelder is a PhD researcher in the HUMANads ERC Starting Grant at Utrecht University. His research addresses the legal frameworks governing commercial and political advertising by social media influencers, while also mapping the regulatory approaches that exist at the Member State and European level.
Jacob van de Kerkhof is a PhD researcher at Utrecht University focusing on content moderation and freedom of expression on social media. Jacob is also a professional rower in the Dutch national rowing team.
Kimon Kieslich is PhD student in communication science. Until September 2022 he worked at the Department of Social Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. His research focuses on public and published opinion of AI ethics.
Paddy Leerssen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.
Arno Lodder is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. In his research and lecturing he focuses on topics related to law and internet, such as liability, contracting, security, privacy, freedom of speech, cybercrime; and phenomena related to big data, social media, cyberwar, internet of things, smart devices and apps. He has published over 30 (co-)edited and (co-)authored books.
Chris Marsden @prof_marsden is Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Technology and the Law at Monash University, Director of the Digital Law Group at Monash, and Associate Director for Global Governance of the Data Futures Institute. He is an expert on Internet and digital technology law, having researched and taught in the field since 1995. Chris researches regulation by code – whether legal, software or social code. He is author of five monographs including “Net neutrality” (2017), “Regulating Code” (2013 with Prof. Ian Brown), “Internet Co-regulation” (2011).
Andrea M. Matwyshyn is a professor in the law school and engineering school at Penn State, the Associate Dean of Innovation at Penn State Law (University Park), and the founding faculty director of both the Penn State PILOT Lab (Policy Innovation Lab of Tomorrow), an interdisciplinary technology policy lab, and the Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity, a technology equity lab and clinic.
Derek McAuley is Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham and Director of Horizon, an interdisciplinary research institute funded through the Digital Economy programme and a Deputy Director of the UK Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub also funded by UKRI.
Douglas McCarthy is the Head of Library Learning Centre, Delft University of Technology. He is an art historian by academic training and has worked internationally in museums, art collections and archives for twenty years. He is a passionate advocate for open access to cultural heritage and his areas of expertise include managing digital collections, open access strategies, copyright and licensing.
Helen Oliver has been a researcher since 2008, and her research interests have converged at the intersection of wearable technology, narrative, privacy and innovation in the Internet of Things. Helen started her doctoral studies at The Alan Turing Institute in October 2016. Helen is registered at the University of Cambridge and begun her doctoral studies after three years as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
Anna-Maria Piskopani is a research fellow at the Facult y of Science, University of Nottingham.
Joris van de Riet is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Jurisprudence, where he is preparing a doctoral thesis on the relevance of Immanuel Kant’s political philosophy to international law and international relations.
Sandra Schmitz-Berndt is a postdoctoral researcher in Law at University of Luxembourg. She is a German and UK-educated lawyer with several year’s experience in legal research and a strong interest in IP law and law and new technologies looking for new challenges.
Simon Sellars is the founder of Sellars Legal and has over 15 years’ experience of providing intellectual property, data protection, and commercial legal advice. He trained at leading international law firm Baker McKenzie and qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2009. Before this, Simon had worked in the patent field since 2002.
Bill Thompson is Head of Public Value Research in the Advisory Team. He joined R&D in late 2017 after eight years working as Head of Partnership Development in BBC Archive Development, where he worked on a range of projects that made the BBC’s extensive archive more accessible to partners and the public. These included The Space, the Research and Education Space, and partnerships with the British Library, British Film Institute and Jisc.
Antonia Waltermann is assistant professor of legal theory and legal philosophy. Her current research focuses on social ontology and law and the cognitive sciences, focusing on the agency and responsibility of non-human entities (including but not limited to AI) both within the law and when it comes to the (social) construction of law.
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius is professor of law and computer science at Radboud University. In his research, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius focuses on the intersection of new technologies and fundamental rights, such as privacy and non-discrimination rights. He is affiliated with the iHub, Radboud’s interdisciplinary research hub on digitalization and society.