Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit
The Legal Implications: Chatbots & Virtual Human Engagement – Peaking Over the Legal Horizon
The chatbot answered your customer service question. The virtual human recommended a product. Harmless enough. But peer over the legal horizon and the implications become considerably more complex and considerably more urgent. What happens when a virtual human becomes a personal companion — an AI girlfriend, an AI boyfriend, a psychological counselor, a healthcare advisor? What are the liability implications when that relationship goes wrong? Who owns the data generated by the most intimate human-AI interactions ever recorded? In this closing roundtable our panel of industry lawyers — relaxed, candid and unfiltered at the end of a long day — explores the legal frontier of chatbot and virtual human engagement. Data privacy, intellectual property, liability and the ethics of human-AI dependency. The legal horizon is closer than anyone is ready for.
Speakers:
Michael J. Masucci, CyberSpace Gallery, founding member, EZTV, Moderator
Michael Hollins, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Creative Production & Emerging Technology, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Rafael Ruthchild, Emmy-winning producer, former, VP of Scripted Programming, AMC Networks
Luna Zhang, Creative Executive, founder, Celes Luna Holding
Alina Kalinouskaya, Performance Artist & Creative Producer, Belarus Vyshyvanka
Dr. Gregory P. Carpenter, FRSA, Cybersecurity, Cognitive Security, and Advanced Technology Researcher
Diana Colella is executive vice president of Autodesk’s Entertainment & Media vertical solutions group. In this role, she manages product, strategy and execution for the company’s portfolio servicing the film, TV and games industries. Colella has been with Autodesk for more than 20 years occupying a range of leadership roles, including head of product management and worldwide support. She has extensive experience in strategically transforming business models, creating new product offerings and optimizing processes on a global scale. Most recently, she served as vice president in Autodesk’s Business Strategy and Marketing group, leading the M&E and AutoCAD businesses, which represent more than $1B in annual recurring revenue. In this role, she drove the company’s strategy for digital conversion of non-compliant users and launched One AutoCAD. She is the executive sponsor of the Autodesk Women’s Network.
