Governing AI’s Intermediaries: Model Marketplaces and Beyond

In this talk, Michael Veale will present an ongoing project with Robert Gorwa (Berlin Social Science Center) on what does, could and should happen when AI is maliciously misused. In particular, what obligations and responsibilities may fall to the many intermediaries in the AI supply chain—cloud, communications, operating systems, hosting platforms for models, platforms for hosting content—and what are the largest tensions that are emerging here? This is a story of AI safety on the ground, not in fantasies—how there are going to be extremely tricky decisions ahead around technological control, moderation, surveillance and more across the whole of our modern technological stack, exacerbated heavily by AI, and how we might navigate these.

Dr Michael Veale is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. His research focusses on how to understand and address challenges of power and justice that digital technologies and their users create and exacerbate, in areas such as privacy-enhancing technologies and machine learning. He tweets at @mikarv.