7th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall Symposium: (Panel 1) The Last Private Place

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7th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall Race & Technology Symposium: Being Human in the Age of AI
Panel 1: The Last Private Place: Neural Data, Digital Addiction, and the Law of Cognitive Liberty

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Panel Description:

As AI and neurotechnology move ever closer to the mind, this panel asks what it means for the law to protect mental privacy, attention, and cognition. Panelists examine neural-data statutes, addictive product design, and AI companion chatbots through privacy law, consumer-protection authority, and product liability. The central question: when does personalization shade into manipulation, and can existing law protect the user’s inner life?

Speakers

Matthew Lawrence, Emory University Law School

Tracy Shapiro, Wilson Sonsini

Francis Shen, Minnesota Law School

Moderator

Vincent Joralemon, Life Sciences & Competition Center, 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.

INFO

• Avail. Until: 4/1/2028
• Course Time:   1:00 PM PT
• Duration:   60 min.
• Program Code:   BCLT0089.1