This webinar will explore the legal and ethical dimensions of using artificial intelligence (AI) in the social housing sector. After a brief overview of how AI models work and their inherent strengths and limitations, the panellists will describe some of the ways social housing providers are using AI and the benefits that AI can have for providers, tenants, and other stakeholders. The conversation will then turn towards some words of caution about the risks of AI use, including those relating to fairness, transparency, and data privacy. The event will conclude with an opportunity for participants to ask questions of the panellists.

Speakers:

Joanna Bouloux 

Joanna specialises in advising on a range of corporate and commercial work including joint ventures, acquisitions and disposals, IT and commercial contracts.

Joanna has a particular focus on joint ventures in the real estate sector which ranges from advising housing association clients to developers and local authorities.

Joanna also advises on a wide range of IT contracts, regularly advising both suppliers and customers of IT solutions. She regularly drafts and negotiates both standard terms and bespoke agreements, support and managed service agreements. In addition, she provides commercial and IT support on wider corporate transactions.

Brendan Bernicker

Brendan Bernicker is a practising lawyer in the United States and a barrister in England & Wales (not currently practising). He represents technology businesses in disputes and advises them on a range of issues, including those relating to the development and use of artificially intelligent systems. Brendan previously worked as a civil rights appellate litigator at the MacArthur Justice Center and was a visiting assistant professor at Penn State University, where he taught the law school’s first AI course and two public law courses. Brendan holds a JD from Yale Law School and both an MA in Political Science and a BA in Philosophy from Penn State. In addition to his legal practice, Brendan works as a full-stack software developer building custom software for enterprise clients.

John Fitzsimons

John Fitzsimons is a versatile junior barrister who maintains a deliberately diverse practice encompassing data protection/information law, planning/environmental law, inquests/inquiries and general public and regulatory law. He is regularly instructed by a wide variety of public and private clients and is ranked in Legal 500 as a leading junior.

As well as his work at the Bar, John sits as a non-executive director on the board of Innisfree Housing Association and regularly provides data protection training on behalf of PDP Training to a range of data protection and privacy professionals in both the UK and Ireland.

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