Join us as we explore the implications of the EU AI Act for citizens, businesses and innovation. This panel discussion is organised by the Student Advisory Board of the Centre for Digital Governance.
The Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) is the world's first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence (AI) and one of the EU's most important digital policy projects. The act was initially proposed in 2021, and final adoption by the European Parliament is expected for early 2023. Following a risk-based approach, the AIA defines a set of rules and obligations for those who develop and deploy AI solutions. To this end, the act aims at walking a fine line between regulating potentially harmful use of AI, while promoting socially valuable applications across the public and private sectors.
The capacity to obscure processes through insufficiently transparent use (AI's "opacity"), the difficulty of reaching broad consensus around a single definition, and the speed of technological change, all pose obstacles to the formulation of robust, future-proof regulation. But how might deploying AI harm citizens in the first place? Is the AIA up to its task and are there any blind spots? How will the AIA affect business and innovation?
In this panel discussion, the Hertie School Centre for Digital Governance gathers experts to evaluate the AIA and assess its implications for citizens, government and businesses. The event will be followed by a reception.
Speakers
Joanna Bryson is Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School. She is also a faculty member at the Hertie School Centre for Digital Governance. Her research focuses on the impact of technology on human cooperation, and AI/ICT governance. Since July 2020, Prof. Bryson has been one of nine experts nominated by Germany to the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence.
Lajla Fetic, 09.07.2019, Project Manager Programm Megatrends. Lajla Fetic is Senior Expert Tech Governance and Digital Policy and co-leader of the project ‘reframe[Tech]’ in the Bertelsmann Stiftung's program ‘Digitization and the Common Good’. She advocates for effective AI governance and is responsible for the project focus on the regulation and control of algorithms and artificial intelligence. She also leads the working group "Sociotechnical Systems" of the German Standardization Roadmap AI. In 2021, she was recognized as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for her work.
Hendrik Remigereau is the Founding Director of the Merantix AI Campus Berlin, a co-working community and knowledge transfer platform for the European AI ecosystem. Before joining Merantix. Hendrik founded and led the Berlin office of Founders Intelligence (previously part of Founders Forum), where he has spent the last 5 years building ecosystems at the intersection of corporate innovation, startups and venture capital. Founders Intelligence was acquired by Accenture in 2021.
Matthias Spielkamp is co-founder and executive director of AlgorithmWatch. He testified before committees of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the German Bundestag and other institutions on automation and AI and is a member of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). Matthias serves on the governing board of the German section of Reporters Without Borders, the advisory councils of Stiftung Warentest and the Freudenberg Stiftung, amongst others. He holds master’s degrees in Journalism from the University of Colorado in Boulder and in Philosophy from the Free University of Berlin.
Welcome address
Gerhard Hammerschmid is Professor of Public and Financial Management and Director of the Centre for Digital Governance at the Hertie School. He also has more than 20 years of experience in communicating research findings to high-level government officials and policymakers such as the EUPAN network, or more recently, the European Commission's Inter-service group on Public Administration.
Moderator
Amin Oueslati is a first-year Master’s student in Data Science for Public Policy (MDS). Prior to joining Hertie, he was a consultant for McKinsey & Company, where he helped government stakeholders exploit the full potential of digital technologies. His academic interests lie in the quantitative exploration of opinion formation, which, for instance, motivated his involvement in the European election forecasting project Poll of Polls. Amin holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University College London.
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