About this Event
Artificial intelligence may seem intangible, but the systems powering it depend on data centres, land and resources. Their development raises questions about who benefits, who bears the consequences and whose voices are heard when decisions are made.
Join Concordia's jurist-in-residence, Morton S. Minc, as he welcomes Karina Kesserwan, Lawyer/Strategic Advisor, Kesserwan Arteau and KAIA for a lecture titledL Cloud on Land: Virtual AI, Real-World Consequences. Who Gets to Decide?
Overview
From autonomous AI agents to environmental challenges, emerging technologies are raising legal questions we never imagined having to answer. Are our existing laws equipped for this new reality? Whose rights and interests should they protect? And who gets to make the rules?
Drawing on surprising real-world examples, emerging legal controversies, humour and Indigenous perspectives, we will look beyond the technology itself and consider what kind of future we're creating.
To participating lawyers
Since Concordia University is an organization distinct from the Bar of Quebec, you must declare your hours of training in your personal file. A certificate of attendance representing 1.5 hours of continuing education will be issued to those lawyers who attend this conference.
Law Meets Engineering lecture series
Concordia Jurist-in-Residence Morton Minc is hosting a series of law-related lectures given by prominent speakers geared to all Gina Cody School students. These lectures will tackle topics that will be very useful in their professional lives.
Meet the speaker
complemented her training in civil and common law at McGill University with graduate studies in ethics and sociology.
She began her career in private practice before serving as a policy advisor to provincial cabinet ministers and later as a lecturer at the college and university levels.
Upon founding her own firm, she initially specialized in Indigenous rights while handling a broad range of cases in fields such as mining law, health, treaty negotiations, culture, entrepreneurship support, and workplace harassment investigations.
For over six years, Karina has been passionate about AI integration, an interest that arose from her work on including Indigenous perspectives in technology. Her original publications and talks on ethics, diversity, and AI challenges have made her a sought-after speaker, recognized for her unique expertise in this rapidly evolving field.
Lawyer/Strategic Advisor, Kesserwan Arteau and KAIA
Photo credit: KAIA
Event venue & nearby stays
Concordia University MB, 1450 Guy Street, Montreal, Canada
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