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Jan. 28, 2021

Personal digital identity as legal artifact and the role of AI

There is a great deal of angst about personal digital identity and how to best legally provide a means for the public to mitigate or overcome the bandying around of their online personal info and prevent nefarious exploits thereof. Recent legislative efforts underway in Wyoming and as recently discussed during an MIT Computational Law class provide an important next-step and can be coupled with advances in AI and the law.

Lance Eliot

Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.

Three important words: personal digital identity.

We are all already accustomed to being worried about how our personal data such as date of birth and Social Security number are at risk of exploitation for identity theft purposes. Whenever a website asks for personal info, you likely cringe and have to soberly reflect whether the danger of sharing the data is worth whatever benefit you’ll derive from providing it.

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