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7th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall Race & Technology Symposium: Being Human in the Age of AI
Panel 2: Your Face, Your Voice, Your Self: Deepfakes, Biometrics, and the Law of Identity
Program Information | Agenda | Resources | Speaker Bio(s) & Contact Info
Panel Description:
Generative AI can now clone a voice or fabricate a likeness, while biometric systems increasingly identify and track people through their faces and bodies. This panel examines the emerging law of identity from entertainment, civil-rights, and legal-scholarship perspectives. At its core is a single question: who controls identity once it becomes data?
Speakers
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA
Mary Anne Franks, GW Law
Jennifer Rothman, Penn Carey Law School
Moderator
Sonia Katyal, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law
Symposium Description:
Being Human in the Age of AI, a symposium exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the law’s most basic assumptions about the human person — from the privacy of the mind to the boundaries of legal responsibility. Across four panels, we traced an arc from the innermost self outward: how neurotechnology and algorithmic design test the limits of cognitive liberty; how deepfakes and biometric systems unsettle the law of identity; how automated decision-making challenges due process and the right to be heard; and how courts and legislatures are struggling to define what AI fundamentally is. Attendees heard from leading scholars, technologists, and practitioners grappling with these questions in real time, as courts issue rulings, states pass conflicting statutes, and AI companies themselves debate the moral status of the systems they build.