Connectionists: CfP: NIPS symposium on Machine Learning and the Law

[Adrian Weller]

NIPS 2016 Symposium on Machine Learning and the Law
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Please forward to others who may have interest.

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: Nov 3, 2016
Decision to Authors: Nov 18, 2016
Final Papers Due: Dec 1, 2016	(papers may be revised following the 
symposium)
Symposium Date: Dec 8, 2016

Note that to come to any of the three NIPS symposia, you must be 
registered either for the main NIPS conference or for the workshops. 
Early registration with reduced pricing ends at 12:59am on October 6.

Website www.MLandtheLaw.org

Symposium on Machine Learning and the Law
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Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence mean that 
predictions and decisions of algorithms are already in use in many 
important situations under legal or regulatory control, and this is 
likely to increase dramatically in the near future. Examples include 
deciding whether to approve a bank loan, driving an autonomous car, or 
even predicting whether a prison inmate is likely to offend again if 
released. This symposium will explore the key themes of privacy, 
liability, transparency and fairness specifically as they relate to the 
legal treatment and regulation of algorithms and data. Our primary goals 
are (i) to inform our community about important current and ongoing 
legislation (e.g. the EU’s GDPR 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation ); and 
(ii) to bring together the legal and technical communities to help form 
better policy in the future.

We welcome machine learners, lawyers and anyone interested in social 
policy. Although the impact of machine learning on jobs in the legal 
profession is an important topic, that is not a key focus of this 
symposium.

Call for Papers
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Authors are invited to submit research abstracts on topics that relate 
broadly to the themes of machine learning and the law, including but not 
limited to issues of privacy, liability, transparency and fairness as 
they relate to algorithms and data.

Submissions should be up to 6 pages in NIPS format (short submissions 
are welcome, longer submissions may be accepted, please contact us if 
this would help you). Submissions need not be anonymized. Given the 
novelty of the field, we welcome a wide range of submissions, whether 
technical, legal or careful thought pieces to stimulate debate and 
discussion. We are happy to consider submissions that survey and comment 
on relevant work that has been previously published.

We aim to highlight a few submissions in spotlight presentations by 
authors at the symposium. All accepted papers will be made available on 
our symposium website, and will appear in an issue of JMLR Workshop and 
Conference Proceedings (unless authors prefer not).

Please submit to submissions at mlandthelaw.org by Nov 3, 2016 (11:59PM 
PDT).

Sponsors: We gratefully acknowledge support from the Center for the 
Study of Existential Risk, and the Leverhulme Center for the Future of 
Intelligence.

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Adrian Weller