NECR Webinar | A Human Algorithm: In Conversation with Flynn Coleman
The NECR program is thrilled to welcome Flynn Coleman, author and international human rights attorney, for a timely discussion around AI, human rights, and democracy.
She is the author of the book A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Who We Are, a groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of humanely designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology. She has spoken, written, and taught on war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, truth and reconciliation commissions, emerging technologies, behavioral economics and behavioral science, political reconciliation, the future of autonomous weaponry and war, post-conflict and transitional justice, artificial intelligence, and the future of truth, democracy, and humanity.
Flynn has worked with the United Nations, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United States federal government, and with international companies, universities, and human rights organizations around the world.
Flynn is the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow in the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen in the Faculty of Law, as well as a fellow at the Information Society Law Center at the University of Milan in the Cesare Beccaria Department of Legal Studies.
She has been named a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Flynn is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale University’s Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Flynn is a Fulbright Specialist with the U.S. Department of State, a Luce Scholar, a Council on Foreign Relations Stephen M. Kellen member, the recipient of the Youth For Understanding Distinguished Alumni Award, and the recipient of a Women in Sports award. Flynn is also the honoree of the Nouveau Classical Project Visionary Award.
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