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The question of how to achieve AI’s many benefits, while mitigating its risks, is critical. The Data Points: Ideas on Data, Law, and Society Lecture Series brings this conversation to Central Ohio and, through live streaming, to the world.  Held three times annually at the OSU Moritz College of Law since 2016, Data Points hosts national thought leaders who engage the audience on the most pressing issues at the intersection of AI, law, and society.

Recent topics have included “Art and AI: Artists at the crossroads of cultural, social and technological change,” “The crisis in reproductive health post-Roe,” “Global AI Policy and Regulation,” and “Racial Bias in Algorithms.”  With an average audience of over 100 faculty, students, attorneys, business executives, technologists and policy makers, the Data Points Lecture Series is enhancing public understanding of how best to govern AI to realize its many benefits while mitigating its significant risks.

Since 2016 hosting national thought leaders

Recent speakers include:

  • Daniel Susser, Associate Professor of Information Sciences at Cornell University. 
  • Lee TiedrichExecutive in Residence in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke.
  • Michael Akinwumi, Chief AI officer at the National Fair Housing Alliance.
  • Neil Richards, Koch Distinguished professor of Law at Washington University.
  • And many others.
Speaker Lee Tiedrich, in conversation with Dennis Hirsch (October 2023)

Engaging our audience in the most pressing issues on AI, law, and society

Some of our past lectures: 

  • Surveillance Capitalism and AI: Is Big Brother Manipulating you?
  • Reprogramming Equality: Paving the Way for Fair Housing with AI.
  • Why Privacy Matters.
  • Among others
Speaker Valentine Goddard presenting (February 2024)

Data points is presented with generous support from our sponsors

Upcoming Data Points Lectures

Oct. 28 Tuesday
Data Points Lecture: Speaker Pam Dixon
4PM - 5PM
Drinko 130 Saxbe Auditorium
Mar. 10 Tuesday
Data Points Lecture: Speaker John Wihbey
12:15PM - 1:15PM
Drinko 130 Saxbe Auditorium