Issues of AI Use in the Legal Sector

Artificial intelligence is now an integral part of our lives. Whether in the medical, advertising or community fields, its use provides significant benefits to organizations considering its ability to perform certain tasks much more efficiently than humans. It is therefore not surprising that several teams around the world are working to incorporate artificial intelligence in their fight against the pandemic. This is the case of Yoshua Bengio and his colleagues at Mila, who have created a mobile application to assess the level of risk that a person will be infected with COVID-19. 

Although the use of artificial intelligence in the context of a pandemic seems promising, we must keep in mind that the use of this technology can also have harmful consequences. Thus, this section of our scientific programming will focus on the challenges of artificial intelligence, particularly regarding privacy and the protection of personal information, democracy and ethics. We will also treat the current crisis as an opportunity for a reasoned deployment of artificial intelligence in various sectors, like the administration of justice. In short, this theme will stimulate reflection on the place that artificial intelligence should occupy in our society. 

Artificial intelligence is now an integral part of our lives. Whether in the medical, advertising or community fields, its use provides significant benefits to organizations considering its ability to perform certain tasks much more efficiently than humans. It is therefore not surprising that several teams around the world are working to incorporate artificial intelligence in their fight against the pandemic. This is the case of Yoshua Bengio and his colleagues at Mila, who have created a mobile application to assess the level of risk that a person will be infected with COVID-19. 

Although the use of artificial intelligence in the context of a pandemic seems promising, we must keep in mind that the use of this technology can also have harmful consequences. Thus, this section of our scientific programming will focus on the challenges of artificial intelligence, particularly regarding privacy and the protection of personal information, democracy and ethics. We will also treat the current crisis as an opportunity for a reasoned deployment of artificial intelligence in various sectors, like the administration of justice. In short, this theme will stimulate reflection on the place that artificial intelligence should occupy in our society. 

To watch or rewatch our activities 

Web-talk, November 26, 2020 :   Legal Text Analysis using AI Chapter 4

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Web-conference, November 24, 2020 :  La fiducie de données : le bon véhicule juridique pour encadrer le développement de l’intelligence artificielle?

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Web-talk, November 19, 2020 : Legal Text Analysis Using AI Chapter 3

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Podcast : Projet de loi nº64 : la protection des renseignements personnels à la croisée des chemins 

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Podcast : L’exploration de la patrimonialité des données personnelles : enjeux sur le statut de la donnée et limites

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Podcast : Pandémie, surveillance et démocratie

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Web-talk, 15 June  2020 : Enjeux éthiques du recours à l'intelligence artificielle en temps de pandémie

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Web-conference, 16 June  2020 : AI'S Contribution to the Administration of Justice

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Web-talk, 18 June 2020 : COVID-19 | vie privée et protection des données

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Summer school 2020 : Protection de la vie privée dans le contexte de covid-19 - Pierre-Luc Déziel & Céline Castets-Renard

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Content linked to the theme

1- COVID-19 App|MILA

• Une application pour lutter contre la COVID-19... - newspaper article 
• Montreal to study possible use (...) locally - newspaper article
• Montreal computer scientists expect to launch...- newspaper article
• Coronavirus : Le projet d'application MILA (...) crée tout un émoi - newspaper article
• L'intelligence artificielle pour mesurer le risque  - newspaper article
• COVI White Paper - scientific paper
• Dépistage pair à pair de la COVID-19 basé sur l'IA - blog post

2 - AI and Administration of Justice

• An Agent-based Legal Knowledge - scientific paper 
• Technique for Automated Drafting of Judicial Documents - scientific paper
• Groundwork for Assessing the Legal Risks - scientific paper
• Using Future Internet Technologies - scientific paper
• Le blogue du CRL - blog post
• Justice et intelligence artificielle, préparer demain - blog post
• L'intelligence artificielle et la justice  - blog post
• Name-Matching Algorithms for Legal Case - blog post

3 - AI and health data, scientific research

• Using AI to Help Explain Why Coronavirus Hits... - newspaper article 
• Chinese Hospitals Deploy AI to Help Diagnose COVID-19 - newspaper article 
• AI Uncovers a Potential Treatment for COVID-19 patients - newspaper article
• Israel is using AI to flag high-risk COVID-19 patients - newspaper article
• Google's medical AI was super accurate in a lab - newspaper article
• Doctors are using AI to triage Covid-19 patients  - newspaper article
• Can symptom surveys predict the next Covid-19 hotspot - newspaper article
• How A.I. Steered Doctors Toward a Possible Coronavirus Treatment - newspaper article  
• On the processing of data concerning health  - practical guideline

4 - AI and ethical issues

• The Bias Embedded in Algorithms  - newspaper article
• Les loups dans la bergerie de l'intelligence artificielle - newspaper article
• Covid-19: les dérives possibles de surveillance des données personnelles - newspaper article
• Surveillance numérique : de réels risques.. - newspaper article
• Opinion : Use least restrictive means  - newspaper article
• À la fois juge et partie, "l'éthique" de Mila - newspaper article
• Géolocaliser la pandémie, une fausse bonne idée ? - newspaper article
• For all its sophistication, AI isn't fit to (...) decisions  - newspaper article
• Entre le technosolutionnisme et le catastrophisme - newspaper article 
• Surveillance pour tous à l'étude - newspaper article
• Application de traçage, le projet québécois prend forme - newspaper article
• COVID-19 : la surveillance de masse pour lutter... - newspaper article
• Conditions d'acceptabilité éthique  - practical guideline
• A High-Level Overview of AI Ethics  - scientific paper 

5 - AI and protection of privacy 

• Les lois du Québec insuffisantes pour encadrer les applications de traçage - newspaper article
• Protecting privacy on COVID-19 surveillance apps - newspaper article
• COVID-19 and privacy - newspaper article
• Change of Purpose : The effects of the Purpose Limitation Principle in the General Data protection... - scientific paper

6 - Technological regulation - Pandemic management

• Privacy in the balance  - newspaper article
• Enjeux éthiques et sociaux du traçage de contacts - newspaper article
• Ottawa espère recommander une application de traçage - newspaper article
• Technology Will Not Save Us - newspaper article
• Apple and Google Team Up to 'Contacts Trace' Coronavirus - newspaper article
• A Scramble For Virus Apps That Do No Harm  - newspaper article
• Covid Tracing Tracker - newspaper article
• Attention à la surveillance technologique généralisée - newspaper article 
• Le traçage de contacts et la fracture numérique - newspaper article
• Les applications de traçage et le micro-ondes de ma grand-mère - newspaper article
• Sortie de crise et traçage numérique - newspaper article
• Covidsafe App: How Australia's coronavirus.. - newspaper article 
• Coronavirus Apps : How Australia's Covidsafe.. - newspaper article
• Concerns about low uptake, flawed pandemic - newspaper article
• COVID-19 tracking data should be managed..  - newspaper article
• Enjeux éthiques liés à la pandémie de COVID-19 - blog post 
• Le recours aux données de géolocalisation...- blog post 
• First version of Apple and Google's contact tracing - blog post 
• COVID-19 - blog post 
• Data protection and coronavirus information hub - blog post 
• COVID-19 le gouvernement pourrait-il vous géolocaliser ?- blog post 
• Pandémie, vie privée et protections des renseignements...- report
• The COVIDSafe Application PIA Agency Response  - report
• The COVIDSafe Application Privacy Impact Assessment- report
• Cadre pour l'évaluation par le Gouvernement du Canada... - report
• La protection de la vie privée et l'éclosion de la COVID-19 - report
• Quantifying SARS-Cov 2 transmission suggests epidemic... - report 
• Traçage des données mobiles dans la lutte contre le COVID-19 - report 
• Cadre de réflexion sur les enjeux éthiques liés à la pandémie - report
• Commission recommendation - report
• Ethical Guidelines for SARS-Cov-2 - practical guide 
• Statement on the processing of personal data in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak - practical guide 

7 - Surveillance, democracy and potential abuses 

• Forget the Techclash. The lawlash is Long Overdue. - newspaper article 
• COVID-19 les dérives possibles de surveillance des données personnelles - newspaper article 
• Surveillés et dociles ?  - newspaper article 
• Yuval Noah Harari - The world after coronavirus - newspaper article 
• Gouverner dans l'ombre de l'État de droit en temps de pandémie - newspaper article 
• Contact apps won't end lockdown... - newspaper article 
• Nos droits fondamentaux en temps de pandémie - newspaper article 
• Artificial Intelligence : Risks to Privacy and Democracy - scientific article 
• Towards Digital Enlightenment - scientific essay 

This content has been updated on 12/07/2020 at 11 h 22 min.