WASP-HS Webinar - Standardization of High-risk AI Systems in the EU

Entréhuset at Örebro University

Entréhuset at Örebro University

September 27, 2024, from 5.00-6.30pm CEST

Abstract:

Harmonized standards developed by the European Standardization Organizations CEN and CENELEC play a crucial role in determining how providers of high-risk AI systems can comply with the mandatory requirements of the EU’s AI Act (such as data governance; transparency and user information; human oversight; accuracy, robustness, and cybersecurity). All these mandatory requirements are worded in the AI Act in a rather broad way. Instead of formulating the requirements for high-risk AI systems itself, the Regulation defines only the essential requirements, leaving the details to standards developed by European Standardization Organizations. To this end, the European Commission has requested CEN and CENELEC to develop harmonized standards for the requirements of high-risk AI systems.

In our webinar, our speakers will provide an overview of the current state of European standards for AI systems and discuss the implications for civil society and consumers as well as international aspects of standardization.

This webinar forms part of the research project “Private Rule-making and European Governance of AI & Robotics” at Örebro University, funded by The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program Humanities and Society (WASP-HS).

Our Speakers:

Dr. Alexander Goschew is project coordinator at the DIN Consumer Council. There he is responsible for the strategic development and international networking. Additionally, he coordinates relevant Consumer Council involvement in the field of information and communication technology standardization. For example, he is involved in standardization projects in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), biometric recognition systems and information security. He has been following the standardization activities for the implementation of the European AI Act from the very beginning and coordinates the consumer positions on AI in the DIN Consumer Council.

Dr Olia Kanevskaia is Assistant Professor of European Economic Law and Technology at Utrecht University and researcher at the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). Her research is focused on the legitimacy of institutions of economic governance, in particular Standards Development Organizations. Olia previously held research and teaching positions at, among others, Tilburg University, KU Leuven, NYU, and Stanford Law School. Her work is published in leading international and European journals and book volumes on economic law, including the monograph  “The Law and Practice of Global ICT Standardization" (CUP 2023).

Prof. Dr. Hans-W. Micklitz is part-time Professor of Economic Law, European University Institute, Florence Italy, fullt-time between 2007 and 2019, formerly Professor at the Berlin School of Business and the University of Bamberg (Germany), visiting scholar at the universities of Bologna (Italy), Columbia (USA), Florence (Italy), Helsinki (Finland), Michigan (USA) and Oxford (UK), ERC Grant 2011-2016 on European Regulatory Private Law, Grant Academy of Finland, 2017-2022 on External Dimension of European Private Law, research on European and transnational private law, compulaw, legal theory.

 

Our Chair:

Prof. Dr. Martin Ebers is President of the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS), Germany, and Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Moreover, he is a permanent fellow at the law faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. In 2022, Dr. Ebers was awarded a five-year grant from the Wallenberg Foundation (WASP-HS) to conduct research with his team in Sweden on “Private Rule-making and European Governance of AI and Robotics”. His latest books are among others “Privacy, Data Protection and Data-driven Technologies” (Routledge, 2024) and “Rechtshandbuch ChatGPT” (Nomos Publishing, 2024). According to Beck-Aktuell 31.12.2023, Dr. Ebers is among the “top 5 legal influencers” in Germany. Since 2024, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the new open access journal “Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance” at Cambridge University Press.