RoboLaw Regulating Robotics

RoboLaw Regulating Robotics

27 – 28 settembre 2018

School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna

Referee
Andrea Bertolini
School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna

DAY 1 – 27th September

8.30 – 9.00 Registration and welcome

9.00 – 10.00 Opening Ceremony and Greetings
Pierdomenico Perata
Alberto di Martino
Andrea Bertolini

10.00 – 11.30 A European Approach to Robotics and AI
Chair:
Mario Mariniello
Speakers:
Bjoern Juretzki
Cecilia Laschi
Massimo Ippolito

11.30 – 13.00 A European Approach to Liability
Chair:
Emanuela Navarretta
Speakers:
Andrea Bertolini
Ian Kerr
Ugo Pagallo
Angela Sanguinetti

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30  A European Approach to Ethical Design
Chair:
Gianluigi Palombella
Speakers:
Massimo Bergamasco
Raja Chatila
Viola Schiaffonati
Anne Gerdes

15.30 – Coffee break

16.00 – 17.00 A European Approach to Standardization and Testing
Chair:
Fabio Bonsignorio
Speakers:
Fabio Bonsignorio
Bardo Schettini Gherardini
Kees Stuurman
Gurvinder Singh Virk

20.00 Dinner (for speakers only)

The Conference constitutes the final event of the Jean Monnet Module “Europe Regulates Robotics”, a three-year long project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme (EAC/A04/2014). The Module draws on the experience of “Robolaw: Regulating Emerging Robotic Technologies in Europe: Robotics facing Law and Ethics” (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2011-1), whose results were presented before the European Parliament JURI Committee on September 2014, sparking and inspiring the debate that led to the adoption of the Recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics (2015/2103(INL)).
Since 2015, the Module has primarily aimed to foster an informed and multidisciplinary debate around the regulation of robotics and AI and its implications in a legal, ethical and economic perspective, and to form academics, policy-makers and professionals in the emerging field of robolaw.
The Module pursued such goals through a number of events involving prominent international experts coming from fields such as law, engineering, political sciences, management, ethics, economics, ethology, and theology, and three editions of the international summer school “The Regulation of Robotics in Europe”, that saw the participation of students from some of the most prestigious European Universities, as well as professionals, and policy-makers.
The principles and the methodology adopted by the Jean Monnet Module embody that “European approach to AI”, which aims at boosting the European technological and industrial capacity and AI uptake across the economy, while anticipating and addressing socio-economic changes, and ensuring an appropriate ethical and legal framework, based on the Union’s values, and in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU1.
The Conference intends to debate about the European Approach to AI and advanced robotics as it emerges from extant legislation, academic, and policy debates, and draw some conclusions on future challenges and perspectives. To this end, it brings together experts from various fields, policy-makers and representatives from the industry, in a two-day event to be hosted by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in the beautiful setting of its main campus, a fourteenth-century Benedictine monastery located in the heart of Pisa historical centre.
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