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Hildebrandt speaks on computational human rights at LETS Lab conference (9 July 2021)

 8 Jul 2021

The LETS Lab, School of Law & Criminology, University of Greenwich are hosting an online conference on ‘Digital Rights 2.0: A Decade of Transformations for the Rule of Law’. The event aims at establishing a venue for sharing and discussing with the research community the ways in which human rights have been shaped by emerging technologies in the past decade: a decade that exposed the conceptual fragilities of the rule of law in data-driven environments and has been characterised by a disillusionment with human rights narratives

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Hildebrandt speaks on the role of human oversight in the AI Act (8 July 2021)

 7 Jul 2021

The Institute for Digital Law Trier (IRDT) of the University of Trier brings together experts in the international and interdisciplinary online conference concerning the EU Commission’s proposal of an Artificial Intelligence Act of 21 April 2021, to discuss the following questions, among others:

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Diver and Hildebrandt speak at Commission event on ‘digital-ready lawmaking & ethics’

 17 Jun 2021

Diver and Hildebrandt spoke at last week’s virtual breakfast event on ‘digital-ready lawmaking & ethics’, hosted by the EU Commission’s Legal Interoperability team, who are working on the ‘Better legislation for smoother implementation’ project. The discussion included numerous experts from various domains, and considered the cross-over between law and ethics, and how this complicates questions of digital-ready laws and digital-ready law-making. What ethical conditions are necessary for the development of laws, and how do technologies reflexively inform our answer to this question? And what impact might the provisions on high-risk AI in the EU’s proposed AI Act have in this context?

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Hildebrandt discusses the EU Digital Strategy at IAPP panel (16 June 2021)

 17 Jun 2021

The EU Digital Strategy sketches an ambitious approach to sculpt Europe’s digital future - covering areas and issues as diverse as the digital economy and value extraction from industrial data, to the impact of digital transformation on the environment, to the shaping of open and democratic societies. Yet, the optimal content and implementation of digital policy in Europe - of any form - is always subject to fierce contestation. A policy as ambitious as the EU Digital Strategy is no exception.

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