CyLab Seminar - Paul Ohm June 25, 2025 3:00pm — 4:00pm Location: In Person and Virtual - ET - Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center 2101 and Zoom Speaker: PAUL OHM , Professor of Law and Chief Data Officer, Georgetown University Law Center https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/paul-ohm/ Gradient Dissent: A Lawyer Reads the ML Literature Life is too short for most lawyers and legal scholars to dig through arXiv, searching through an unruly haystack of machine learning papers for the few needles of most relevance to legal practice and theory. Professor Paul Ohm, a legal scholar and erstwhile computer scientist, has been doing this work so other lawyers don't have to. In this talk, he offers a guided tour of recent landmark papers in machine learning, connecting them to important, interesting, and emerging questions in the law. He will also preview two of his current projects: One explores the legal implications of government surveillance of conversations with chatbots. The other argues that generative AI may drive down the cost of regulatory compliance, paving the way for new and aggressive forms of regulation. — Paul Ohm is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. In his research, service, and teaching, Professor Ohm builds bridges between computer science and law, utilizing his training and experience as a lawyer, policymaker, computer programmer, and network systems administrator. His research focuses on information privacy, computer crime law, surveillance, technology and the law, and artificial intelligence and the law. Professor Ohm has published landmark articles about the failure of anonymization, the Fourth Amendment and new technology, and broadband privacy. His work has defined fields of scholarly inquiry and influenced policymakers around the world. He has testified before committees of both houses of Congress and advised numerous government agencies including the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and several state Attorneys General. A strong believer in the importance of public service, Professor Ohm has served in numerous roles in federal government. He started his legal career as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s legendary Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. More recently, he served as a Senior Policy Advisor for Privacy to the Federal Trade Commission and to the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking as an Obama White House appointee. Professor Ohm received a law degree from UCLA and degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Yale University. He writes thousands of lines of Python code each year and lives his life in Emacs and org-mode, although he holds no ill-will towards those who prefer vi. Faculty Host: Lorrie Cranor In Person and Zoom Participation. See announcement. Event Website: https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/events/2025/06/25-seminar-ohm.html Add event to Google Add event to iCal
