On April 27-28, Simona Demková participated as a panelist at a conference on “The ‘Brussels Effect’ in EU Digital Governance?” Legal, political and economic reflections jointly organized by the University of Lausanne, Ecole Polytechnic Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), University of Groningen, LUISS, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Wallonie-Bruxelles International”. The conference was convened with a keynote address by Professor Anu Bradford of Columbia Law School, author of the “Brussels Effect” phenomenon.
Simona participated in a panel on “Algorithms and AI” to discuss the EU’s “rights-based” and “human-centered” approaches to regulating AI. By critically examining the lineage of approaches, her presentation suggests that her AI law proposal, currently pending by the EU, is insufficient to ensure full respect for fundamental rights. Did. Instead, the act’s combination of product safety with its risk-based approach and proposed market surveillance implementation scheme represents a greater convergence with the technology industry’s ‘human-centric’ vision. The latter reflects advances in computer her science, essentially aiming to ensure effective human control over the use of AI, and not necessarily to strengthen the protection of fundamental rights and human values. Not a thing. This disagreement will have a significant impact on the formulation of safeguards in the final version of the AI Law and, more broadly, on her ability to achieve her EU ambition to create a global standard for AI.
Simona will continue to explore these dynamics with Daniel Mandreescu in the context of a new project on “Human-Centric Digital Transformation in the EU”, supported by a Starter Grant from Leiden University. To contribute to the success of the EU’s human-centric digital transformation, this project aims to realize the human-centric requirements and create a coherent conceptual framework for their implementation under the EU Digital Acquis. purpose. To that end, this project aims to:
- Realign and coordinate the related but disparate regulatory objectives of the EU digital acquis.
- It explores how these objectives are being pursued today and what a human-centered regulatory approach actually requires of the various parties involved. technology providers and/or business practices to which the measures apply;
- Identify potential conflicts between the various objectives of EU Digital Acquis and the technical design of the AI technology to which it applies.
