This session looks toward continuing the work started during the convening. The aim of the convening is to create conditions that facilitate the optimal development of AI and of antidiscrimination law. The hope is that this project will become a catalyst for collaborative research and policy development, by (i) facilitating dialogue and the exchange of information, especially across disciplinary boundaries; (ii) by incubating or funding research or policy reform projects; and (iii) by educating a wide range of stakeholders about the evolving contours of AI and antidiscrimination law. This session invites participants to develop some specific areas of focus. By the end of the session, each group will develop a roadmap for advancing scholarship, policy, and practice for antidiscrimination law within the era of rapid AI advancement. These roadmaps will be collected and synthesized to sketch promising policy reforms and a robust research agenda. The range of considerations include:
- Noting specifically the ambiguities in law and doctrine that make regulating AI difficult and make it harder for AI to achieve its potential to contribute to a more just society.
- Articulating the challenges that AI poses for law and lawyers.
- Identifying specific and key research questions as well as pathways for interdisciplinary collaboration; what are the open social science, computer science/technological, legal, and interdisciplinary research questions that are pressing and open and require more?
- Laying out the potential policies or policy considerations that civil rights lawyers and activists should pursue.