Matthew Seet is the lead author of the forthcoming book, The Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Law, to be published with Globe Law and Business. He is also the founder of LAIRisk, the world’s first legal AI risk management edtech (education technology) company. LAIRisk’s mission is to guide legal professionals and technologists in managing AI risks by using the framework of ISO 42001 (the international standard on responsible AI). It is a Microsoft for Startups partner (Level 3), and is registered in both Singapore and the European Union (Estonia) - both signatories of the EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement.
Matthew obtained his Master’s in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva on a Swiss Government Scholarship, and is certified as an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (IAPP), ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Artificial Intelligence Management Systems Lead Auditor, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Information Security Management Systems Lead Auditor and ISO 31000:2018 Lead Risk Manager.
He was formerly an international law lecturer at the National University of Singapore where he taught law for 7 years. His human rights writings have been published in the Cambridge Law Journal, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Citizenship Studies and International Journal of Refugee Law, cited in the Financial Times, and awarded the 2017 Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia Prize for Young Scholars.
He also recently served as the board secretary of Sandbox, managing all legal and compliance matters of the Switzerland-registered global community of over 1600 entrepreneurs and creators. He previously conducted research on human rights and data privacy at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees headquarters in Geneva for over a year, and represented Switzerland in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.