Adam Riley is speaking at the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) webinar on The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Public Law Decision-Making, on 26 September 2024.
The CLA is a membership organisation for professional lawyers, academics and students practising within the Commonwealth, although it welcomes qualified international lawyers and academics with an interest in its work.
Governments have adopted and deployed AI to assist in making decisions that have significant implications for the lives of individuals. This has included the use of AI ‘tools’ to assist with decisions in the fields of immigration, welfare and social security, healthcare, school admissions, criminal justice, and more. The adoption and development of such technologies shows no sign of slowing.
Proponents of AI technologies point to the significant potential these have to improve efficiency in decision-making and data analysis, for example, in relation to research into disease, in improving accessibility to services for disabled people, in agriculture, education, and in the distribution of humanitarian aid, to name but a few.
However, the increasing adoption of these same technologies also poses various challenges. These include their use as tools of suppression and surveillance. In addition, there is also the risk of the abuse of human rights as a collateral consequence of the operation of more “benign” AI tools. Far from ameliorating bias and discrimination, the unconstrained use of certain AI tools risks the exacerbation of discrimination and inequalities in society as well as privacy invasion.
How should the law respond to these manifold challenges? What do practitioners have to be alive to to keep up with these changes in technology? Are the traditional principles and processes of Judicial Review sufficiently future-proofed?
Date: 26 September 2024
Time: 11am BST
Visit the CLA website for further information.
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