Petra Molnar- Juris Doctor
- Harvard University
Petra Molnar
- Juris Doctor
- Harvard University
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Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in technology, migration, and human rights. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab, York University and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She is also the co-creator of the Migration and Technology Monitor, a collective of civil society, journalists, academics, and filmmakers interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders.
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The incorporation of specific provisions concerning foundation models and generative AI into the proposed EU AI Act necessitates the compilation of policy-relevant considerations for policy actors and stakeholders, amid the ongoing global discussions on AI regulation and its impacts on people and communities.
People on the move are often left out of conversations around technological development and become guinea pigs for testing new surveillance tools before bringing them to the wider population. These experiments range from big data predictions about population movements in humanitarian crises to automated decision-making in immigration and refugee ap...
Experiments with new technologies in migration management are increasing. From Big Data predictions about population movements in the Mediterranean, to Canada's use of automated decision-making in immigration and refugee applications, to artificial-intelligence lie detectors deployed at European borders, States are keen to explore the use of new te...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social services, or in building “smart cities”? How does algorith...
The passage of Bill C-31 into Canadian law in June 2012 is part of a discourse created around refugees by the current Government of Canada. Refugees are divided into "good and proper" refugees who live in camps abroad, and the " fraudulent and bogus" refugees who claim asylum at the Canadian border. The new act, Bill C-31 or Protecting Canada's Imm...
