A presentation by Prof. Lilian Edwards, Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School. This event is part of the Fundamental Rights Research Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
The AI Act proposal is significant as the world’s first comprehensive attempt to regulate AI, addressing issues such as data-driven or algorithmic social scoring, remote biometric identification and the use of AI systems in law enforcement, education and employment. Prof. Edward's paper is primarily a critique of the existing AI Act, which is hoped to be of relevance in the EU legislative process. It is also a survey of its flaws as a potential global model for ‘getting AI right’. The aim of this paper, is to analyse if the AI Act will indeed create ‘trustworthy AI’, which balances proportionately the social interest in innovation and better delivery of public services from AI, with adverse impacts on fundamental rights and societal values. Given the likely first-mover "Brussels effect" this is crucial both to the EU and globally.
Lilian Edwards is Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School. She has taught information technology law, e-commerce law, privacy law and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate level in England and Scotland since 1996 and been involved with law and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1985. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Internet Privacy Research and is the lead on AI and law for the Alan Turing Institute where she is also a Turing Fellow.
Prior registration is required. Registered attendees will receive the dial-in details as well as a draft paper, on which the presentation is based, via e-mail prior to the event.
