Innovation Policy Colloquium: Albert-László Barabási

The Innovation Policy Colloquium focuses each year on different aspects of the law’s role in promoting creativity, invention, and new technology. This year, we will discuss the the implications of complexity for law and policy related to innovation, privacy and AI. Complexity science is a cutting-edge multi-disciplinary field that studies a wide variety of systems comprised of numerous interacting components. The human social network, the internet, social media applications, cities, biological systems and financial networks are all examples of complex systems. Complexity can lead to non-linear and surprising responses to policy initiatives, such as tipping points and feedback effects. Policymaking that is insensitive to these possibilities can go drastically awry.

Albert-László Barabási, Director, CCNR/The Lab: The Center for Complex Network Research
Network Science as a Falsifiable Discipline: From Graphs to Testable Laws

Email Nicole Arzt if you would like to attend the colloquium. If you are outside of NYU and do not have an NYU Id then I will need to add your JRNY for building access.