Summer School 2023

The Law and Ethics of Generative AI

Prof. Dan Hunter

17 July 2023

10:00 am - 12:45 pm

This event is part of the Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2023.The Summer School is core for STAI CDT PhD students, and open to a limited number of other students, by invitation.

Recent advances in generative AI have made everyone crazy (in ways good and bad). Everyone it seems is using ChatGPT to answer questions, plan menus, and write love letters—when they’re not using Midjourney or Stable Diffusion to draw astronauts on a horse in the style of Andy Warhol. 

In this talk, Professor Dan Hunter examines how generative AI models like are built, sketches their meteoric rise, and discusses some of the profound legal and ethical issues created by large language models . 

Please see Prof. Dan Hunter’s talk below:

About the speaker

Professor Dan Hunter is the Executive Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London. He is an expert in legal technology and artificial intelligence & law. He is the author of books on gamification, intellectual property law, and intelligent legal systems. He has degrees in computer science and law, and a PhD from Cambridge in the cognitive science of legal reasoning.