Law, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: promoting an interdisciplinarity approach in the development and application of AI systems

7 March 2025 – Regulating AI field: the role of ethics and its interplay with technical solutions;
10 March 2025 – Law, Ethics, and Technology: a general introduction;
11 March 2025 – Regulating AI field: the role of law and its interplay with technical solutions;
13 March 2025 – The EU regulatory approach: the AI Act;
18 March 2025 – AI, bias and discriminations;
20 March 2025 – AI and freedom of speech;
26 March 2025 – AI and privacy;
27 March 2025 – AI and medicine;
3 April 2025 – AI in the research field; 
4 April 2025 – PhD Students final presentations.

A minimum of 75% attendance is required.

Teaching methods

The seminars will be conducted as frontal lectures, during which ethical and legal tools for developing an interdisciplinary approach to AI will be provided. Additionally, a learning-by-doing approach will be employed, whereby PhD students will be required to apply their newly acquired knowledge to hypothetical scenarios of concrete AI applications.

Assessment methods

Each PhD student will be asked to make a presentation on a case study related to the topics addressed during the seminar series and to present the work carried out in class.

Bibliography

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