BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260726T002456EDT-2174vMKiW9@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260726T042456Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for an AI and the Law talk with Nicole Rigillo\, PhD\, who is a Research Fellow at the Berggruen Institute and Element AI.\n\nAbs tract\n\nArtificially intelligent systems are increasingly being used to b oth augment and replace human decision-makers of all kinds: a human resour ces representative screening a job applicant\, a judge assessing a prisone r’s bail request\, or an immigration agent issuing a visa\, for example. T he automation of high-stakes decisions has led to concerns about bias\, fa irness\, and transparency. But a question that remains largely unexplored is how the application of machine learning to decisions made about human b eings asks us to revise our understanding of what a decision is.\n\nThis i s not a trivial question considering that\, with some exceptions\, our law s\, expectations about explanations\, and notions of accountability have b een developed around humans as the primary agents responsible for decision s made about other humans. This presentation first situates how human deci sions have been framed in administrative law\, cognitive science and behav ioural economics. It then draws on interviews with AI engineers to illustr ate the major differences between human decision-making processes and the modes of reasoning used in second-wave AI.\n\nA key issue here is the prob lem of interpretability\, necessitating the development of a set of method s known as explainable AI\, along with attendant concerns about the qualit y and utility of these explanations. The presentation closes by arguing th at the differences in modes of reasoning between humans and machines neces sitates a rethinking of laws and notions of accountability to better accou nt for the specificity of decisions made by artificially intelligent agent s.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nNicole Rigillo is an anthropologist and Researc h Fellow at the Berggruen Institute's Transformations of the Human Program . She is based at Element AI in Montreal\, where she engages AI scientists in dialogue on how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to b e human.\n\nHer current research centers around explainable AI and spaces of epistemic negotiation between humans and intelligent machines\, ethical AI processes\, and data collection in insurance and retail contexts. Her postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh examined how civic an d environmental activists use WhatsApp to improve municipal governance in Bangalore\, India\, raising questions concerning the effects of encrypted dark social networks on democracy and the public sphere. Her PhD research at McGill University focused on how mandatory corporate social responsibil ity in India is altering an earlier model of welfare universalism by redis tributing social responsibilities among groups of non-state actors.\n\nAI and the Law Series\n\nThe AI and the Law Series is brought to you by the M ontreal Cyberjustice Laboratory\; the McGill Student Collective on Technol ogy and Law\; the Private Justice and the Rule of Law Research Group\; and the McGill Centre for Intellectual Property Policy\; and the Autonomy Thr ough Cyberjustice Technologies Project.\n\nThis event is eligible for incl usion as 1.5 hours of continuing legal education as reported by members of the Barreau du Québec.\n DTSTART:20191126T220000Z DTEND:20191126T233000Z LOCATION:NCDH 316\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36 44 rue Peel SUMMARY:What does a Decision become in the Era of Artificial Intelligence? URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/what-does-decision-become-era- artificial-intelligence-302249 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR