Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms: Ethical and Legal Challenges

Date: 
23.05.2019 (All day)

Location: 
UT School of Law, Näituse 13 a room 201, Tartu


Doctoral Seminar 
Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms: Ethical and Legal Challenges

Description
Rapid advances in AI and robotics question and challenge the traditional boundaries of law. Algorithms are widely employed to make decisions that have increasingly far-reaching impacts on individuals and the society (“algorithmic governance”), leading potentially to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy and property rights, and more. This has sparked a global debate on how to regulate AI and robotics (“governance of algorithms”). In our seminar we will discuss both facets, i.e. the impact of algorithms as well as the possibilities of future regulation.

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Deadline for registration: May 20 (14.00 at the latest), 2019. Please register here

Venue
University of Tartu, School of Law
Näituse 13a - 201, 50409, Tartu - ESTONIA

Organizers
Martin Ebers, PhD, habil., Associate Professor of IT Law
Marta Cantero, PhD, Associate Professor of IT Law

General information
The IT Law Doctoral Seminar on AI is organized in co-operation with the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS), the University of Tartu School of Law and the University of Tartu Doctoral School in Economics and Innovation.

The Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS) was founded in 2017 with the aim to ensure that intelligent systems are designed in a responsible way. RAILS is working on a legal framework that facilitates technical developments, avoids discrimination, ensures equal treatment and transparency, protects fundamental democratic principles and ensures that all parties involved are adequately participating in the economic results of the digitalization. For more information cf. www.ai-laws.org/en.

 

* Please be informed that the workshop "Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms" will be videorecorded and the recordings will be used in printed and electronic media, including the internet, for teaching and research/promotional purposes. Some images or recordings may be selected for permanent preservation in the University Archive as a record of University life and may be used for research, publication, education, lectures, broadcasting, public performance, displays and exhibitions.