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Katja de Vries is Assistant Professor in public law at Uppsala University with a special focus on AI-generated content.  
 
From 2020-2024 she is leading the CreAI project that studies creative AI in relation to issues like data protection, intellectual property, freedom of expression and cybercrime. 
 
Besides Uppsala University, de Vries is associated with the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute at Stockholm University, and the Center for Law, Science, Technology and Society at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. 
 
This December you can meet Katja de Vries as one of the keynote speakers at the Generative Methods conference in Copenhagen.   
  
Machine learning and public law 
 
Over the past decade, Katja de Vries has built a research agenda around the socio-legal aspects of machine learning.  
 
Besides CreAI, she is currently involved in the AIR Lund project, which studies artificially intelligent use of registers, and joint co-PI on the project that studies the challenges and opportunities of the European Data Act for SMEs in the Swedish creative industry.  
 
As such, de Vries has also been an early contributor to the SSH literature on generative AI, for example the 2020 “You never fake alone: Creative AI in action”.