Kyra J
- Research Program Mentor
LLM candidate at SOAS, University of London
Expertise
International Law, History (American, East/South/Southeast Asian), Human Rights, International Relations/Foreign Policy
Bio
Hi! My name is Kyra, and I'm a JD candidate at Yale Law School. I earned an LLM in International Law from the University of London and MPhil in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar, and a BA in History and Human Rights from Stanford. I'm interested in civil rights litigation, public international law, international criminal law, and tech regulation. I explored these interests over the last eight years as an intern for the U.S. government, a consultant for UN agencies, and a researcher for an Indonesian NGO. For fun, I like running and thrift shopping. I see mentorship as a two-way street: for as much as I can teach my students, my students also teach me about their topics and way of thinking about complex problems. I look forward to meeting and learning from you through this experience!Project ideas
Governmental Approaches to Governing AI
AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, have been rapidly developed and disseminated into society at a rate far faster than governments have been able to regulate these paradigm-shifting innovations. Some governments, such as in the UK, have decided to take a laissez faire approach, choosing to not regulate these technologies at all out of fear of limiting growth. Other countries, such as Italy, have banned ChatGPT all together, out of concerns that it violated the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This project will explore the policy implications of regulating AI technologies, weighing the various pros and cons that countries might face in doing so. Through conducting a literature review of governments' current positions on AI and previous positions on other emerging technologies, you will gain an insight into why certain governments make the choices they do and identify certain patterns for the relationship between these government and technological developments. After familiarizing yourself with various global approaches, you will pick a country to study more in-depth, in order to understand its unique country-specific challenges and priorities, as well as any regional legal constraints (such as laws governing privacy and civil liberties in Europe). Ultimately, your research will culminate into a policy proposal that synthesizes the main findings of your research and offers a recommendation for how your chosen country's government should approach its regulation to AI.