The Law and Politics of Machine Listening

机器收听是指人工智能的一个分支，推动智能扬声器、语音助手和其他始终在线的收听设备的快速增长。它的许多应用提供了真正的好处，但机器监听也在隐私、安全、监控、人权和其他法律和政治领域构成了紧迫的挑战。这些挑战尚未得到系统的回应。这个项目旨在研究机器监听的出现所产生的影响，以便为监管和加强公众对这一日益增长的权力领域的监督制定一个概念性框架。这些成果旨在影响公共政策，并提高使用机器监听技术的未来技术、设备和服务的社会效益。

Machine listening refers to the branch of AI driving the rapid growth of smart speakers, voice assistants and other always-on listening devices. Many of its applications offer real benefits, but machine listening also poses urgent challenges across privacy, security, surveillance, human rights and other areas of law and politics. These challenges are yet to receive a systematic response. This project aims to examine the effects of machine listening’s emergence in order to develop a conceptual framework for regulation and greater public scrutiny of this growing field of power. These outcomes are intended to impact public policy and enhance the social benefits of future technologies, devices and services that use machine listening techniques.