Contemporary Challenges for AI and Society: Disciplines in Dialogue

24 Mar 2021, 15:00 → 26 Mar 2021, 17:00 Europe/Rome

AI is an essential part of people daily life in many different ways. This is no more a futuristic vision; it is the present-day of contemporary society. What has been dubbed the Fourth Revolution goes far beyond the mere technological capacity of algorithms. Open questions here go beyond the lines that confine individual areas of interventions. To approach these problems urges a more robust multidisciplinary approach. The success of AI society urges new ways of conceiving and operationalizing legal rules.

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Event Poster

Wednesday, 24 March

15:00 → 15:15 Profiling and automated decision making through A.I.-based software: a threat for vulnerable group

Speaker: Dr Chiara Gallese (Eindhoven University of Technology)

15:15 → 15:30 Artificial Intelligence: the challenges for Criminal Law in facing the passage from technological automation to artificial autonomy

Speaker: Dr Beatrice Panattoni (Università degli Studi di Verona)

15:30 → 16:30 The Case against Facial Recognition

Speaker: Prof. Woodrow Hartzog (Northeastern University, Boston)

16:30 → 17:00 Roundtable discussion - Moderator Prof. Andrea Pin

Thursday, 25 March

15:00 → 15:15 The civil liability of robo-doctors: problems of “qualifying” classification and “solution” perspectives

Speaker: Dr Remo Trezza (Università degli Studi di Salerno)

15:15 → 15:30 The art of identification: a philosophical and neuroscientific approach to A.I.

Speaker: Dr Silvia Corradi (Università degli Studi di Trento)

15:30 → 16:30 Experiments in Machine Behavior

Speaker: Prof. Iyad Rahwan (Center for Humans & Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)

16:30 → 17:00 Roundtable discussion - Moderator Prof. Samir Suweis

Friday, 26 March

15:00 → 15:15 An Early Warning System to Identify Trends in Misinformation

Speaker: Dr Pamela Blio Thomas (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

15:15 → 15:30 The value of information in the AI Society and the emerging issues about its legal protection

Speaker: Prof. Elisa Spiller (Università degli Studi di Padova)

15:30 → 16:30 Manufactured Speech: Affective Computing and Automated Text Generation as a Crisis of Meaning

Speaker: Prof. Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School University of Maryland)

16:30 → 17:00 Roundtable discussion - Moderator Prof. Lamberto Ballan