Kevin P. Lee

“Professor Lee is a great professor and a good friend. I took his Computational Law and Data Analytics Class at Campbell Law School. We discussed AI ethics at length in his class and it was seriously life-changing for me. He challenged us to stay relevant in a profession that tends to do the same things the same way for a very, very long time. It became clear to all of us, that using AI to apply the law or predict outcomes will be the new differentiator in the market; however, it is not without pitfalls and ethics concerns (bias, transparency, accountability, etc.). I am coming out of law school with a notion of where the industry is headed and using AI to help with my work, in large part, because of Prof. Lee's teaching and encouragement. No one has more excitement for emerging technologies and I am grateful our paths crossed so I could learn from him!”

“I have known Professor Lee since mid-2021. We met in my 2L year of law school, when I was looking for an outlet for my interest in issues involving the law and technology. Happily, as a lifelong teacher, he was willing to share his passion for (and vast knowledge of) the many subareas of the topic, including his love of the fields of AI and AI ethics. As faculty advisor to the school’s law and technology student organization, of which I was a member, Prof. Lee guided us with thoughtful questions and a seemingly endless list of further resources to consult and study, all of which he had mastered. Since then, as a thought leader, Prof. Lee has made a number of meaningful contributions to the field of AI ethics. To name but a few: contributions to the Center for AI and Digital Policy, lecturing at the Law and Society Association, and related work for the North Carolina Supreme Court. For those who know him, this is unsurprising. Prof. Lee's deep background in philosophy and the law in conjunction with his relentless study of the insights that data-science frameworks can provide (and those frameworks themselves) has uniquely positioned him to add value in a broad range of policy-based applications. Where an interdisciplinary background is essential to make informed evaluations in a field where the stakeholders and policymakers have diverse skillsets and perspectives, Prof. Lee’s background stands out. In addition to his deep knowledge of the topic, on a personal level, Prof. Lee is both kind and an excellent listener. He also has a great sense of humor. His clear-eyed sense of the potential benefits and concerns of AI on today’s “dancing landscape,” as Gillian Hadfield has described it, is rare. In short, he would be a great fit for any role that involves policymaking or strategic insight into the increasingly important field of AI ethics.”