CLAUDETTE: Empowering Consumers through Artificial Intelligence

Soyez des nôtres pour une conférence L'intelligence artificielle et le droit avec Przemysław Pałka, qui parlera de la possibilité de faire évaluaer automatiquement tous les contrats de consommation, conditions de service et politiques de protection de la vie privée qu'une personne rencontre en ligne grâce à un projet d'intelligence artificielle.

Résumé

[En anglais seulement] From a consumer's point of view, all the online terms of service and privacy policies she accepts are in themselves "big data" - too much to read and too much to comprehend. Yet, these documents significantly shape the legal position of internet users. This position is often suboptimal not because consumers (or their organizations) do not enjoy enough rights (or competences); rather, their factual capabilities to oversee and execute these rights are limited.

The underlying premise of the CLAUDETTE Project is that artificial intelligence, especially machine learning, can be employed to empower consumers and civil society in dealing with dozens of online contracts and legal notices. The lecture will demonstrate how this empowerment could look like, building on theoretical and empirical arguments. The lecture will further talk about technical preconditions for developing similar systems, promising areas of future research, and the possible ways of bringing functioning AI-powered legal tools into the hands of consumers.

CLAUDETTE – “automated CLAUse DETectEr” – is an interdisciplinary research project hosted at the Law Department of the European University Institute, led by professors Giovanni Sartor and Hans-W. Micklitz, in cooperation with engineers from University of Bologna and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Le conférencier

[En anglais seulement] Przemysław Pałka, Ph.D., is a Research Scholar at Yale Law School, Fellow in Private Law at the YLS Center for Private Law, and a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, where he studies the intersections of law, society, and new technologies. Interested mainly in private law, data law, and data analytics, Przemysław tries to theorize the dialectical relationship between the ways the law co-creates the socio-technological reality we live in, and how technological changes challenge the assumptions the law holds about this world. Policy-wise, he is interested in the regulation of data management, and the possibilities of using machine to increase access to justice for individuals.

Le cycle L'intelligence artificielle et le droit

Ce cycle de conférences est une collaboration du Laboratoire de cyberjustice de Montréal; le Collectif étudiant pour la technologie et le droit; le groupe de recherche Justice privée et état de droit; le Centre des politiques en propriété intellectuelle de McGill; et le projet d'Autonomisation des Acteurs Judiciaires par la Cyberjustice et l’Intelligence Artificielle (AJC).

Cette activité est admissible pour 1,5 heures de formation continue obligatoire tel que déclaré par les membres du Barreau du Québec.