KCDS-CiTiP Fellow Lectures Series: Towards an AI Regulator? Professors Joanna Bryson & Martin Ebers
- Updated on: 2022-05-26
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The idea of having an ‘AI regulator’ has been widely discussed, especially since the proposal of the AI Act in April 2021. During an interactive seminar, professors Joanna Bryson & Martin Ebers will give their views on this topic. What would an EU or Member State regulator look like? What is the role of the European AI Board? How can the AIA be enforced?
Joanna Bryson is Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School. Her research focuses on the impact of technology on human cooperation, and AI/ICT governance. From 2002-19 she was on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Bath. She has also been affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. During her PhD she observed the confusion generated by anthropomorphised AI, leading to her first AI ethics publication “Just Another Artifact” in 1998. In 2010, she co-authored the first national-level AI ethics policy, the UK's Principles of Robotics. She holds degrees in psychology and artificial intelligence from the University of Chicago (BA), the University of Edinburgh (MSc and MPhil), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD). Since July 2020, Prof. Bryson has been one of nine experts nominated by Germany to the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence.
Martin Ebers is Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and permanent research fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is co-founder and president of the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS). In addition to research and teaching, he has been active in the field of legal consulting for many years. His main areas of expertise and research are IT law, private law, insurance law and European law. Most recently, he co-published the book „Algorithms and Law“ at Cambridge University Press.
The Knowledge Centre on Data & Society (KCDS) focuses on the interplay between data, artificial intelligence and society. The Centre serves as a knowledge hub and monitors AI-related developments around the world. It aims to enable Flemish stakeholders such as companies, policy-makers, citizens and regulators to achieve the greatest social and/or economic benefits of AI. The Centre will provide practical information on AI, develop an appropriate legal and ethical framework and issue policy recommendations. It comprises of three existing research centres: imec-SMIT (Free University of Brussels), imec-MICT (Ghent University) and the Centre for IT & IP Law (KU Leuven). The Flemish Department on Economy, Science and Innovation funds the initiative.
The Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) is a research centre at the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven with a current staff of over 85 researchers specialised in legal and ethical aspects of IT innovation and intellectual property. Researchers working at CiTiP focus on the fundamental re-thinking of the current legal framework, necessitated by the rapid evolution of technology in various fields. Their research is characterised by an intra- and extra-juridical interdisciplinary approach, constantly aspiring cross-fertilisation between legal, technical, economic, ethical and socio-cultural perspectives. CiTiP has a solid track record as a law and ethics partner of large international and interdisciplinary research projects. It is internationally renowned for its expertise in the areas of Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous systems, Data Protection & Privacy, eHealth & Pharma, Ethics & Law, Intellectual Property, Media & Telecommunications and (Cyber)security.
