The Law and Politics of Machine Listening

机器听音是指人工智能的分支，它推动了智能音箱、语音助手和其他永远在线的听音设备的快速增长。它的许多应用提供了真实的好处，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带来了紧迫的挑战。这些挑战尚未得到系统的回应。该项目旨在研究机器监听出现的影响，以制定一个概念框架，用于监管和加强公众对这一不断增长的权力领域的监督。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.