Artificial intelligence is both expanding trade and altering trade. Moreover, a growing number of digital trade agreements include language to encourage AI. For example, some include provisions encouraging the free flow of data and/ or language requiring that public data when open be provided in a machine readable format. But policymakers are just beginning to figure out how encourage AI (as example to incentivize multi- sectoral data sharing). Meanwhile, more than 60 countries have AI strategies and 11 have data strategies. Policymakers could alter comparative advantage in data through various approaches to regulating data or the data giants. This webinar will feature two scholars who have recently written on the relationship between AI and trade.
Speakers:
Emily Jones, Associate Professor, Blavatnik School of Government Oxford University, author of Digital Disruption: AI and International Trade Policy.
Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva, author of Regulating artificial intelligence through digital trade agreements
Moderator:
Research Professor Susan Aaronson, Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, GWU
