AI Governance and Regulation

AI GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION

This cross-sectional field of research enables analysis of how appropriate existing law is in relation with AI applications (e.g., the GDPR) and what AI governance might resemble  in the future. Research focuses on issues such as data and privacy protection - among other human rights - transparency, the audibility of AI systems, accountability/liability and oversight/control, and the fight against bias and discrimination.

ARTICLES

Tools for Navigating the EU AI Act: (2) Visualisation Pyramid

Theodore Christakis and Theodoros Karathanasis

07/03/2024

The following article features a comprehensive visualization pyramid designed to illustrate the risk-based approach of the EU AI Act in a single, intuitive graphic. This tool is intended to be useful to academics, students, practitioners, data and AI enthusiasts, as well as anyone keenly interested in the imminent adoption of the EU AI Regulation.

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What if you move on from your AI companion ? Data portability rights in the era of autonomous AI agents

Cornelia Kutterer

27/02/2024

The purpose of this article is to explore the existing data portability rights under EU law, and assess the potential gaps among the GDPR, the DMA and the Data Act in the light of the new development of autonomous AI agents.

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Tools for Navigating the EU AI Act: (1) Final Text with Interactive Table of Contents

Team AI regulation

19/02/2024

In anticipation of AI Act’s publication on the Official Journal of the EU, the MIAI AI-Regulation Chair publishes an interactive Table of Contents (ToC) to help practitioners and the academic community navigating the lengthy and complex text of 252 pages, by enabling users to “click” and be directly transferred to different Titles, Chapters, and Articles.

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Regulating Foundation Models in the AI Act: From “High” to “Systemic” Risk

Cornelia Kutterer

11/01/2024

This article delves into the EU’s groundbreaking rules for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models, as outlined in the politically agreed-upon AI Act on December 8th. It scrutinizes key questions, including whether this approach deviates from the original risk-based proposal, navigates the complexities of risk management in foundational models, and grapples with the uncertainties in benchmarking methods.

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NEWS

UN Pushes for Global AI Governance: Building Trust in Secure AI Systems

29/03/2024

On March 21st, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted for the first time a non-binding Resolution that encourages the development of regulatory and governance principles and frameworks and includes standards to ensure that safe, secure and trustworthy AI systems are created.

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Defining AI Systems: Is the OECD’s Update a Quandary for the EU ?

01/12/2023

On November 8th, 2023, in the midst of the stalled inter-institutional negotiations between the Council of the EU and the European Parliament (EP) on the regulation of foundation models in relation to the future AI law, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced that it had updated its definition of AI systems.

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Is the EU Taking the First Step Toward International Guiding Principles for Generative AI ?

25/10/2023

On October 13th, 2023, the European Commission launched a stakeholder survey on the eleven draft guiding principles for Generative AI (GAI) and other advanced AI systems. This initiative comes a few days after the 8th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, organised by the United Nations.

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EU iBorderCtrl : When Commercial Interests outweigh the Public Interest

20/09/2023

On September 7th, 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) upheld the decision of the General Court according to which the public can partially access documentation on the EU’s emotion recognition project (iBorderCtrl) in which it discusses the general reliability, ethics and legality of such technology.

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