Ignacio Cofone is Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Ethics in AI. He is also an affiliated fellow of the Yale Information Society Project and the Quebec AI Institute. Before joining Oxford, he was the Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance at McGill University.
Prof. Cofone’s research examines how law can and should adapt to AI-driven social and economic changes. He is the author of The Privacy Fallacy (CUP 2023), which argues that AI requires restructuring privacy and data protection law based on the duties that we owe one another as members of a society, typically captured by extracontractual obligations, because basing them on individual consent and control is no longer effective.
His current projects focus on how to address nonmaterial AI harm and on regulatory design that promotes responsible AI innovation. He has advised governments, courts, and other organizations on how to reform and apply law and regulation in view of AI, such as by working with the Canadian government on an overhaul of Canadian privacy law.