Human Rights Day Event – In Conversation with Dr Susie Alegre: ‘Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI’

You are invited to our ‘In Conversation with Dr Susie Alegre’ event to celebrate Human Rights Day at Garden Court Chambers on Tuesday 10 December 2024. Our Abigail Holt will be interviewing Dr Susie Alegre on her important work and what it means to have human rights in this fragile technological age.

Join us to hear from Dr Susie Alegre on her book Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI, published by Atlantic Books earlier this year. Described as ‘utterly brilliant‘ by Baroness Helena Kennedy, this urgent polemic explores the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights – including the rights to life, liberty and fair trial; the right to private and family life; and the right to free expression – and how we protect those rights.

About Dr Susie Alegre
Susie is an associate tenant at Garden Court Chambers and a senior public international lawyer with high level experience in policy strategic leadership, decision making, oversight and governance. She is currently a Member of the Commission for Control of Interpol’s Files, the body responsible for oversight of Interpol’s red notice system. Susie advises  internationally on human rights and regulation of emerging technologies and is currently consulting for UNICEF on neurotechnology and children’s rights. She is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

Susie’s previous book, Freedom to Think (Atlantic Books, 2022), was listed as one of the Technology Books of the Year 2022 in the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph, and was shortlisted for a Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize 2023.

About Abigail Holt
Abigail has been recognised as a being a thought-leader in relation to Ethics in information technology and artificial intelligence (AI). She has presented at conferences organised by AITechNorth and Manchester Metropolitan University and to celebrate the UN Day for Universal Access to Information, Abigail was wrote a piece for the International Association of Women Judges, available to read here.

Abigail has over 25 years of experience focusing mainly on accident, disease, health and medical-related issues. Her caseload concentrates on difficult tort/negligence cases: catastrophic injury and death; personal injury claims for head injuries and clinical negligence; complex industrial diseases, particularly lung disease/asbestos; injury abroad; to human rights claims including for child abuse/neglect. Abigail’s expertise is far wider than most PI/clinical negligence practitioners. She has experience working with the team of référendaires in the Cabinet of the UK Advocate General, at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. She is the leader elect of the European Circuit of the Bar for 2025, and is co-convenor of the Garden Court‘s Commercial and Business Ethics Team.

This event is now fully booked.