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DESCRIPTION:The lecture examines three key aspects of the impact of AI on c
 orporate governance. First\, the tech industry’s general governance disfun
 ction focused on highly controlling founders\, the financing of technology
  and its impact on operational AI. Second\, the corporatisation of AI deve
 lopment as it has moved rapidly in recent years from the universities to t
 he tech companies creating a tension between academic values and corporate
  utility that in turn creates AI operational disfunction. Third\, it exami
 nes the impact of operational AI on the corporation as a legal and economi
 c entity which may remove the mitigating function of the board of director
 s creating a very direct form of market capitalism without any employee\, 
 environmental\, community or short v long term mitigation of corporate act
 ions.  Currently these governance issues do not form a significant part of
  the AI regulatory reform conversation.  \n\nJoin us via Zoom. Meeting ID:
  843 6411 4509 \n\n \n\nBiography \n\nAlan Dignam is an Irish academic law
 yer who writes on corporate theory.  He is Professor of Law at the school 
 of law at Queen Mary University of London.  \n\nHis work spans the study o
 f Corporations and Human Rights\, the Globalization of Corporate Governanc
 e\, Corporate Disregard (Veil Lifting/Piercing) and the governance of Arti
 ficial Intelligence. Along with David Allen inn 2000 he produced one of th
 e first books analysing the application of Human Rights instruments to Cor
 porations. Subsequently\, working with Michael Galanis\, in The Globalizat
 ion of Corporate Governance (2009) they used institutional analysis to exa
 mine the convergence of corporate governance in the UK\, the US and German
 y and argued\, contrary to convergence theories\, that globalisation was i
 n retreat and that it would be replaced with rising nationalist economic a
 gendas. Since 2014 he has been working on a large scale empirical project 
 with Professor Peter Oh from the University of Pittsburgh examining corpor
 ate disregard (Veil lifting/piercing etc) in the UK over the course of the
  19th\, 20th and 21st Centuries. They have argued that despite multiple at
 tempts by the senior UK judiciary\, no overarching legal principles seem t
 o be present and that the context of the legal action such as Criminal\, T
 ort\, and Contract\, seems to weigh heavily on the outcome. Since 2016 he 
 has been a member of a Welcome Trust funded network exploring the impact o
 f Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Corporations where he has argued for AI 
 to be regulated and licenced on the same basis as pharmaceutical products.
   \n\nIn November 1999 he was awarded the Fredrick I Medal for contributio
 ns to Academia by the Department of Political Science\, University of Napl
 es. For the Academic year 2002-2003 he held a visiting fellowship at the L
 aw School\, University of Melbourne and was a Parsons Scholar at the Law S
 chool\, University of Sydney. In 2003 he was appointed by Lord Millet to t
 he Editorial Board of Gore Brown on Companies. He was appointed in 2004 to
  the International Advisory Committee to the South African Department of T
 rade and Industry Company Law Review and has advised various governments\,
  and NGOs on Corporate law\, Human Rights and governance reform. In 2012 h
 e was a Joint Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong an
 d the University of Hong Kong when he was deported in order to ensure a pl
 anned public lecture did not take place. He has been an advisor to Amnesty
  International's Business Group on their corporate accountability campaign
 s and in 2012/13 worked with Amnesty and Menagerie Theatre Company to brin
 g corporate human rights abuse to public attention through a large scale p
 ublic engagement theatre project called Human Rights! Bloody Human Rights!
  http://www.humanrightsandbusiness.org/\n\nHe is an honorary Member of 7 K
 ings Bench Walk Chambers and a Member of the European Forum on Securities 
 Regulation. In 2015 he was ZIFO Institute for Financial and Corporate Law 
 Amsterdam Distinguished International Visitor and a visiting Professor at 
 the Cambridge University Law Faculty. In December 2020 he was honoured for
  his contribution to the law by Queen Elizabeth II who appointed him Queen
 s Counsel Honoris Causa. \n\nHe has written for the Times and the Guardian
  and written a radio play for the BBC.  \n
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LOCATION:Zoom.
SUMMARY:The AI Corporation: Corporate Governance in the Age of Artificial I
 ntelligence 
URL:/law/channels/event/ai-corporation-corporate-gover
 nance-age-artificial-intelligence-336613
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