KDEC 9610 - Comparative AI law and regulation

The course in ‘Comparative AI law and regulation’ will introduce students to the pertinent legal theories, basic technological attributes and features, commercial incentives, consumer harms, and regulatory approaches on the issue. After a couple weeks of introduction, students will also learn about the ways in which jurisdictions around the world, including the EU, the US and US states, and Brazil hold AI developers and deployers legally accountable. We will consider, for example, the risk-based framework, as well as product liability and regulatory approaches that bans certain harmful uses.

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Each class will be one part lecture and one part student discussion that applies the pertinent legal doctrine for that class meeting to a contemporary problem.

Class participation (25%); short take-home mid-term exam (15%); in-class presentations discussing a case study of social rights advocacy (25%); take-home final exam (35%).