Title: What's risk got to do with it? Regulating AI in the US, EU, and the UK
PhD Supervisor & Co-Supervisor: James Hollway & Suerie Moon
Date: 2024
Legislative and judicial responses to artificial intelligence (AI) are growing. The US, EU, and UK are taking different regulatory approaches to the development and deployment of AI. Their approaches to AI may have global implications. However, little empirical evidence exists on public attitudes to AI regulation, and what factors could shift their choice of regulatory regimes in the US, UK, and the EU. I have weaved together academic training in social psychology and political science to conduct over 100 semi-structured interviews and a randomised controlled survey experiment with policymakers, their advisors, tech regulators and lobbyists, academics, and the general public to investigate factors that influence support for enacting and revisiting AI regulation. This research could have implications on factors that influence support for regulatory approaches to emerging technologies more generally.
Kulani Abendroth-Dias works at the intersection between behavioural science, emerging technologies, and international relations/political science. A TEDx speaker on “Why Good People Do Bad Things - And What We Can Do About It”, Kulani is keen to leverage mixed methods academic research in policy practice and has worked with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, Switzerland, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She has a Master in Social Psychology from Princeton University (USA) and a MSc in European Integration specializing in Economics, Security, and External Relations from the Institute for European Studies (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium. She is currently also a senior fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).
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