Theodore Christakis: the GDPR meets Generative AI - trust, hallucinations, and how not to crash your BBQ party

Theodore Christakis is Professor of International and European Law at University Grenoble Alpes (France), Director of the Centre for International Security and European Law (CESICE), Director of Research for Europe with the Cross-Border Data Forum, Senior Fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum and a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the New York University Cybersecurity Centre. 

He is also Chair on the Legal and Regulatory Implications of Artificial Intelligence with the Multidisciplinary Institute on AI, and has been a member of the French National Digital Council, currently serving as a member of the French National Committee on Digital Ethics as well as a member of the International Data Transfers Experts Council of the UK Government. 

With Theodore we have gone through “the good”, “the bad”, and “the ugly” in the EDPB Opinion on LLMs and personal data. We have also examined the Deepseek affair, as well as the challenges posed by hallucinations in generative AI. 

References:

• Théodore Christakis’ SSRN Author Page
• Théodore Christakis on LinkedIn
• EDPB opinion 28/2024 on certain data protection aspects related to the processing of personal data in the context of AI models
• Discussion Paper: Large Language Models and Personal Data (Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit)
• Lokke Moerel: using personal data in the development and deployment of AI models (Masters of Privacy)
• Théodore Christakis, ‘European Digital Sovereignty’: Successfully Navigating Between the “Brussels Effect” and Europe’s Quest for Strategic Autonomy 
• Théodore Christakis, Cyber-Attacks – Prevention-Reactions: The Role of States and Private Actors
• Multidisciplinary Institute on AI
• Université Grenoble Alpes: Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes.