Overview

While AI accelerates research by improving data analysis, modeling, and automation, it also presents challenges like biased learning datasets, lack of transparency, and issues of reproducibility. The EU AI Act serves as a significant regulatory framework addressing some of these challenges, with a risk-based approach that promotes accountability, transparency, and human oversight. While the law sets guardrails, ethical standards are crucial to ensure fairness, prevent harm, and uphold human rights as well. Together we will explore ethical challenges and discuss approaches to use AI responsibly.

This Expert Talk is for researchers and everyone working in a research organization.

The Expert

Matthias C. Kettemann is Professor of Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law and head of the Department for Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck. He leads the University’s Quantum Ethics Lab and heads research programmes at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research in Hamburg. After studying law in Graz, Geneva and at Harvard Law School he taught in Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Jena. He works and publishes on the power of rules and the rules of power in online spaces and has been engaged as an expert for the Council of Europe, UNESCO, OSCE, and national parliaments and ministries. He is member of UNESCO’s global ethics commission and of the AI Advisory Council of the Austrian UNESCO Commission.