UC Libraries Research & Data Services is hosting an Ethical AI Symposium, exploring the responsible use of AI, its benefits and risks, and ethical considerations for the UC community. Scheduled for Thursday, May 22, from 10:30am-1:30pm in the Medical Sciences Building (MSB) 5051, the event is open to all interested in learning more about AI’s dual role as both an innovative tool and a potential source of harm.

The symposium will feature a keynote address by Emile Loza de Siles, assistant professor of law of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law. Following is a networking lunch and a panel discussion where UC thought leaders will share their perspectives on ethical AI practices and the future of responsible innovation.

Symposium Agenda

• Keynote                           10:30am – 11:30am
• Lunch                               11:30am – 12:15pm
• Panel Discussion           12:15pm – 1:30pm

Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/DmesAj0Jj0

Emile Loza de Siles has served since 2019 on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE’s) Artificial Intelligence Policy Committee, part of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligence Systems.  Professor Loza also serves on the Hawai‘i Supreme Court’s inaugural Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Her interdisciplinary scholarship centers on artificial intelligence (AI) science, law, policy, and governance; AI biases and AI-mediated harms; and AI impacts on people, liberty, and the rule of law. She is the author of almost forty publications, and her works have been published or are forthcoming in the Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies, the Harvard Latin American Law Review, the Washington and Lee Journal on Civil Rights and Social Justice, the Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, among other journals and books. 

Professor Loza joined the legal academy in 2019 with some twenty years’ technology and intellectual property law experience serving Cisco, HP, and numerous other innovators in her firm, Technology Law Group.  She also served with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of General Counsel and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).  She clerked for Judge Sérgio A. Gutiérrez, Idaho Court of Appeals, and FTC Commissioner Sheila F. Anthony.

She holds a technology undergraduate degree, an MBA from the University of Houston, and a juris doctorate from The George Washington University School of Law, with further cybersecurity and data science graduate certificates and studies from Georgetown University and Harvard University, respectively.

Panelists include

• Emile Loza de Siles, Assistant Professor of Law, the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law
• Josette Riep, MS, Assistant Vice President of Integrated Data, Engineering & Application Services (IDEAS) in Digital Technology Solutions (DTS
• Kelly Merrill Jr., PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Communication and Technology in the School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies
• André Curtis-Trudel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy