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Van den Hoven presents on normativity and international computational law at Aberdeen University (23 June 2022)

 24 Jun 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’).

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Dushi delivers a lecture on the use of facial recognition by law enforcement (22 June 2022)

 21 Jun 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?

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Hildebrandt and Dushi take part in the ‘Imagining the AI Landscape after the AI Act’ workshop (13 June 2022)

 13 Jun 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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