College: Fitzwilliam
Supervisor: Richard Staley
Thesis topic: Bell Labs and the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Late-Twentieth Century
Harry Law is a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and a researcher at Google DeepMind. He's also a postgraduate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. You can find him on X at @lawhsw and writing about AI history, ethics, and governance at Learning From Examples.
Peer-reviewed publications
Law, H. Computer vision: AI imaginaries and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AI Ethics (2023).
Law, H., & Krier, S. (2023). Open-source provisions for large models in the AI Act.
Law H. Bell Labs and the 'neural' network, 1986–1996. BJHS Themes. 2023;8:143–154.
Reviews
Law H. Dylan Mulvin, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In. London: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 978-0-2620-4514-8. £40.00 (paperback). The British Journal for the History of Science. 2023;56(1):115–117.
Comment articles
Law, H. There's No Such Thing as 'Generative AI', AI Business.
Law, H., and Ho., L. Can a dual mandate be a model for the global governance of AI?, Nature.
Law, H., and Krier, S. Open-source provisions for large models in the AI Act, Montreal AI Ethics Institute.
Law, H. The coming AI culture war, Montreal AI Ethics Institute.
Podcast appearances
Bretton Goods, Talking AI Regulation with Harry Law.
