The European AI Act – a milestone in the regulation of artificial intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence needs a proper legal framework. The European AI Act, which came into force on August 1, 2024, is the world’s first law on artificial intelligence with a broad scope and intensive regulation of so-called AI systems. The impact of the AI Act on developers and users of AI systems in Europe and beyond, and whether the AI Act offers a convincing regulatory approach that could serve as a model for legislation outside Europe, is currently the subject of intense debate.
The participating partners, Saarland University (Germany), Keio University (Japan), the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), intend to discuss these questions from a comparative law perspective in an online workshop on Thursday, October 24, 2024, from 11:00-14:30 UTC※.
The workshop is part of the research project “Explainable Intelligent Systems”, funded by Volkswagen Foundation.
Participation is free of charge and possible without prior registration.
Programme:
• The European AI Law at a glance.
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges (Saarland University)
• The Intersection of EU AI Act and JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards).
Prof. Fumio Shimpo, PhD (Keio University)
• An assessment of the EU AI Act as a model for South Africa’s AI Plan.
Prof. Michele van Eck (University of Johannesburg)
• The metamorphosis of the EU AI Act into the Brazilian AI Act.
Prof. Dr. Juliano Souza de Albuquerque Maranhão (University of Sao Paulo)
