Join us to hear Jeff Hirsch, Geneva Yeargan Rand Distinguished Professor of Law, The University of North Carolina School of Law, deliver this year’s 45th Kenneth M. Piper Lecture as he addresses labor regulations in AI. AI technology has rapidly advanced in recent years, promising numerous benefits. On the other hand, AI also presents risks, including privacy violations and discrimination. Congress and state legislatures have been slow to react and, as a result, government regulation of AI is virtually nonexistent in the U.S.

This regulatory gap is not total, however. In absence of government intervention, one group has been able to impose substantial limits on AI use: labor unions. As employers have increasingly used AI in the workplace, workers have begun seeing risks of that technology directly. Unions—which have the expertise, opportunity, and incentive to address AI use at work—have been at the forefront of regulating AI in the workplace. These efforts are still nascent, but AI’s prominence in the two major Hollywood strikes and subsequent contracts demonstrate unions’ important regulatory role in this area.

This free lecture will be held in the Chicago-Kent College of Law Ogilvie Auditorium at 11:30am on Tuesday, March 5, 2024.

Speaker

Jeff Hirsch, Geneva Yeargan Rand Distinguished Professor of Law, The University of North Carolina School of Law

Commentators

Brad Kelley, Shareholder, Littler
Danielle S. Van Lier, Senior Assistant General Counsel, Contract & Compliance, SAG-AFTRA