#AcademicRunPlaylist - 6/4/25

I finished teach my MIT Professional Education course today, and while basking in the glow of that experience and that of the late afternoon sun I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great panel on the EU AI Act's fundamental rights impact assessment at Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) with Oreste Pollicino, Lokke Moerel, Yordanka Ivanova, Neil Richards, Andrea Claudio Cosentini, and Federica Paolucci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5mf3aR_Fqk

Next was an amazing talk by Rachel Meyer on the rise of gig work and what it means for workers at Harvard University VPAL. Meyer reviews the history of piece work and how the gig-ification of jobs threatens worker well being and performance. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5WHRRhWVso

Next was an intriguing panel on digital governance and corporate responsibility across borders at CPDP J. Trevor Hughes, Aura Salla, Thomas Le Goff, Sylvie de Oliveira, Gaia Marcus, and Eduardo Ustaran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-x5Is_j3dw

Next was an enlightening talk by Alysson Portella on understanding Brazil's falling income inequality on the VoxDev podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkAtZnR0LHQ

Next was a nice talk by Mireille Hildebrandt on the ethical backdrop of AI development (unfortunately dipping into AI doomerism towards the end) at CPDP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfoFBXD7p-s

Next was an excellent discussion on representations in minds and brains on the Brain Inspired podcast with Luis Favela, Edouard Machery, Frances Egan, Rosa Cao, and John Krakauer. After reviewing the results of a survey showing a lack of consensus in the neuroscience field around the term "representation," the conversation shifts to the essence of its different meanings and implications for the field and beyond. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LMzkUeDMg

Next was an important panel on GDPR's role in employee rights and representation at CPDP with Irmak Erdoğan, Nikos Papadopoulos, Larisa Munteanu, Eva King, and Aida Ponce Del Castillo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZaci7PA63A

Next was a thought-provoking discussion between Carwyn Jones and Eddie Cubillo on Indigenous legal thought and practice at Melbourne Law School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30yrcWaXVU

Last was an interesting panel on the large AI model training and data protection at CPDP with Georgios Yannopoulos, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich, Maria da Graça Canto, José-Luis Piñar, and Maria Biliri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIDsu0PoKG0