Defending One’s Personal Thoughts | Duke Today

Farahany begins with a deceptively easy query: What is AI? From there, she explores how the information we generate day-after-day — together with one thing as abnormal as a selfie — can be utilized to make highly effective inferences about who we are, typically in ways in which present regulation does not adequately handle. Farahany additionally introduces the idea of cognitive liberty: the fitting to self-determination over one’s personal thoughts, and why defending it has by no means been extra pressing.

“Cognitive liberty gets at this kind of precondition, the foundation for the capacity to think freely, the capacity to be a self, to be a human in the modern era. That’s really what’s at risk,” Farahany says. “That’s why we have to define this category and be able to understand how it’s different, how it’s evolved, and how digital technologies have fundamentally transformed the kind of interests that are at stake to be a fully functioning autonomous individual able to exercise rights in the modern era.”

She explains a number of the foundational ideas on the intersection of AI, regulation and human autonomy. Drawing from her AI Law and Policy course (which she’s opened as much as the general public through Substack), Farahany makes advanced concepts accessible to anybody curious about the place know-how is taking us.

These movies provide a vital basis for understanding AI not simply as a know-how, however as a drive shaping the human expertise and the contours of human rights.

To watch these and different Duke Law movies, go to the Legal Brief sequence.