In Defense of Smart Weirdos: What I Learned at an AI Safety Law-a-Thon
This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending the AI-Safety Law-a-Thon in London. The event, which was organized and expertly run by Katalina Hernández (of Stress-Testing Reality Limited ) and Kabir Kumar (of ai-plans), was part hackathon, part brainstorming session, part role-playing game, and part law school practicum. I didn’t know exactly what to expect, and I mostly went because Katalina is a friend and she asked me to. Still, I’m glad I did. The two-day event asked participants to game out the legal and technical implications in relation to a set of hypothetical AI bad-time scenarios. We were asked to analyze and argue how responsibility & liability should be assigned to each of the players, and identify risks and gaps in relation to the AI models and systems themselves. Groups consisted of lawyers, who came with knowledge of the law, how to read contractual terms and parse regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act and Product Liability Directive, and AI Safety technical exp
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