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Hildebrandt presented on ‘The Methodenstreit in Machine Learning’
Mireille Hildebrandt presented on The New Methodenstreit in Machine Learning at the International Conference on Explaining Machines, at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (the place where famous sociologist Niklas Luhmann worked for most of his professional life). The Conference is part of the TRR 318 Constructing Explainability research project, a collaboration across different regions and disciplines, bringing together computer science, social science and the humanities. The project is led by Elena Esposito and Tobias Matzner. See Elena Esposito’s salient and important article in CRCL, on Transparency versus explanation: The role of ambiguity in legal AI.
... »Van den Hoven presents on normativity and international computational law at Aberdeen University (23 June 2022)
International legal scholarship has over recent years started to pay much closer attention to the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the international legal order. However, to date, the focus has primarily been on AI as a topic of regulation by international law. Comparatively speaking, there has been less discussion about the use of AI in the (law-making) processes and institutions of international law (referred to as ‘international computational law’).
... »Dushi delivers a lecture on the use of facial recognition by law enforcement (22 June 2022)
Facial recognition is used not only by the private sector. Its evolution has attracted the public sector too, especially law enforcement and border management. This has generated many debates on the impact on human rights. Public safety and expression of consent by people are classic justifications behind the use of such identification technology. But questions remain: Is it necessary? Is it the best/right remedy? Is it proportional? Is it effective? And, ultimately, is the expressed consent informed consent?
... »Dushi moderates the session on ‘Criminal Justice in Cyberspace’ at EuroDIG2022 (21 June 2022)
This year saw a big step in the fight against cybercrime with the adoption of the second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention, the European Union’s AI Act proposal which regulates (restricts) the use of AI for law enforcement purposes, and the strengthened efforts towards a UN treaty on cybercrime.
... »Hildebrandt speaks on the rule of proxies in the Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt lecture (14 June 2022)
The EuADS Summer School Data Science for Social Media is opened by a public lecture by Mireille Hildebrandt titled The Whisper Challenge - The Rule of Proxies.
... »Hildebrandt and Dushi take part in the ‘Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act’ workshop (13 June 2022)
In April 2021, the EU Parliament published a proposal, the AI Act (AIA), for regulating the use of AI systems and services in the Union market. However, the effects of EU digital regulations usually transcend its confines. An example of what has been named the “Brussels effect” - the high impact of EU digital regulations around the world - is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect in May 2018 and rapidly became a world standard. The AIA seems to go in the same direction, having a clear extraterritorial scope, in that it applies to any AI system or service that has an impact on European Citizens, regardless of where its provider or user is located. The AIA adopts a risk-based approach that bans certain technologies, proposes strict regulations for “high risk” ones, and imposes stringent transparency criteria for others. If adopted, the AIA will undoubtedly have a significant impact in the EU and beyond. A crucial question is whether we already have the technology to comply with the proposed regulation and to what extent can the requirements of this regulation be enforceable.
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