Workshop on Law-Following AI
A two-day workshop for legal scholars and technologists interested in the question of how to design agentic AI systems that reliably follow the law.
Applications are now open — Apply by May 31, 2025, and we will be in touch no later than June 16th.
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Hosted by the Institute for Law & AI (LawAI) and the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University and funded in part by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), the Workshop on Law-Following AI aims to catalyze research into the design of agentic AI systems that follow human laws. You can read more about Law-Following AI in our article of the same name, forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review.
Content
The Workshop on Law-Following AI will feature presentations and discussions from scholars in the fields of law and artificial intelligence. The Workshop will focus on the question of how agentic AI systems can be designed to follow human laws, with a particular focus on crucial questions in legal scholarship that must be resolved in order to design such systems. Examples of such questions include:
- Which laws should agentic AI systems follow?
- How rigorously should agentic AI systems follow those laws?
- How should a law-following AI system decide whether a contemplated action is likely to violate the law?
- In what contexts should the law require that AI agents be law-following?
A fuller list of research questions is listed in Part VI of the Law-Following AI article.
The aim of the event will be to advance and inspire further legal research on these and other questions, to eventually inform the concrete design of policies that require AI agents to be law-following.
Attendees interested in presenting new research relating to law-following AI are encouraged to apply to present at the workshop as part of their application to attend. We will provide a $1,000 honorarium to presenters. Presenting is not required for attendance.
Logistics
- Dates: Evening of Wednesday, August 6 – Fri, August 8. The evening of Wednesday, August 6 will be an optional (but encouraged) welcome dinner.
- Location: Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
- Attendees: ~25
- Cost: Meals will be provided. While we request that attendees first ask their home institutions to cover costs associated with travel and accommodations, we can cover travel and accommodations costs for those whose home institution cannot.
- Eligibility: Open to scholars from law, AI, and related fields with an interest in the design of law-following AI systems.
Apply by May 31, 2025, and we will be in touch no later than June 16th.
