Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Rules for a Flat World

Law Professor Gillian K. Hadfield, Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute, has been thinking about law for a long time.

Her 2017 book, Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy, aimed to understand and re-envision the global legal system for an increasingly complex world.

Now, a paperback edition of the book is updated with a new prologue about artificial intelligence (AI)—its risks, benefits, evolution, and regulation. Hadfield tackles this most pressing contemporary technology with insights into how we might understand, govern, and build AI that is responsive to human values.

Hadfield will discuss her book as part of Rotman’s Big Ideas series on November 25, 2020.

In a new Q&A, Hadfield offers some timely insights into what problems we face today, how we might begin to solve them, and what’s at stake if we don’t.

Republishd from the SRI Toronto website