Legal Tech News featured Dr. David K.A. Mordecai as an invited panelist at the American Bar Association (ABA) SciTech Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics National Institutes Conference, which was held on October 12-13, 2021.
David K.A. Mordecai and his co-panelists discussed ways in which data supply-chain activities might incur liability related to data acquisition, curation, warehousing, use, dissemination and agency. During the panel discussion, Dr. Mordecai highlighted the roles of statistics, economics and digital forensics for analyzing risk and liability exposure of data acquisition, collection and curation, to mitigate data and algorithmic bias and corresponding liability exposure, and noted “You cannot regulate something that you do not understand.”
David Mordecai currently serves as Chair of the Nanotechnology Committee, Vice-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Committee and Co-Chair of the Space Law Committee, of the ABA Science & Technology Law Section. Dr. Mordecai is President and Co-Founder of Risk Economics and Visiting Scholar at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU, co-advising research activities at RiskEcon® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute.
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