UBC experts on AI safety and regulation

Representatives for OpenAI, the company that runs ChatGPT, have been called to Ottawa following reports the Tumbler Ridge shooter was banned from using the chatbot.

UBC experts are available to comment on AI safety and regulation.

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Lecturer, Peter A. Allard School of Law

Email: aikenhead@allard.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • technology-facilitated gender-based violence
  • AI deepfakes
  • legal regulation of online intermediaries

*Unavailable Wednesday noon-2 p.m.; available Thursday between 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m., Friday.

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Lecturer, Peter A. Allard School of Law

Email: festinger@allard.ubc.ca 

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • AI Law, ethics and regulation

*Unavailable until 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, and until noon Friday

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Professor, Dept. of Computer Science

Email: kevinlb@cs.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • AI risks to democracy
  • AI predictions of human behaviour
  • AI adoption in Canada
  • AI and the economy

*Unavailable Friday 27 Feb – Monday 2 March

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Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Computer Science

Email: mack@cs.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • AI technology, safety, regulation, and ethics

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Associate Professor

Email: jrobilla@mail.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English, French

Expertise:

  • AI and companionship
  • AI and mental health
  • benefits and drawbacks of AI chatbots and social robots.

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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science

Email: vshwartz@cs.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • technical limitations of content moderation

*Unavailable 9:30-11 a.m. Thursday 

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Research Associate & Instructor, School of Public Policy & Global Affairs

Email: chris.tenove@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • AI and politics
  • AI and online harms
  • generative AI regulation

*Unavailable Fridays