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Minority Report: The Ethics & Impacts of Algorithms at the MCCA' Global Tec Conference

  • Hilton San Francisco 333 O’Farrell St San Francisco, CA USA (map)

The Global TEC Forum: Empowering Change in Technology, Education and Careers (G-TEC) addresses diversity in the tech industry, the latest disruptions and challenges facing the legal profession, and how emerging technologies are changing the practice of law.

Our Panel: The information age has provided us with unparalleled insight into human conduct. Seemingly every digital move we make is captured, mined, commoditized, and leveraged for a myriad of commercial purposes. As a society, we encourage and applaud innovation, experimentation, and development, and we are delegating more and more decision-making to artificial intelligence, automation, and computer programming. Reactive by nature, the law is struggling to keep up with the pace of technological advancement, but we should also be considering the potential biases, hidden agendas, and discriminatory implications inherent in our aggressive pursuit of technology. This session will address the questions that the legal profession should be asking and how organizations can move forward in a responsible, legal, and ethical way.