Abstract: Growing interest and investment in the capabilities of foundation models has positioned such systems to impact a wide array of services, from banking to healthcare…
Associate Professor of Information Sciences, Cornell University
Karen Levy
Karen Levy is a sociologist and lawyer. Her research investigates how digital technologies are used to enforce rules and laws, with particular focus on the normalization of electronic surveillance within social and organizational relationships. Her dissertation examined the emergence of electronic monitoring in the U.S. trucking industry. Karen is a research fellow at NYU’s Information Law Institute. She holds a PhD from Princeton University and a JD from Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
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