Regulating AI in a Democracy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing fast and improving many aspects of life. However, it has also profound implications for democracy: opaque decision-making, gender-based or other kinds of discrimination, and intrusion in our private lives stand in direct tension with democratic values at the core of the EU such as transparency, equality, privacy, and due process. The European Commission has consequently made a proposition for an AI Act, currently being discussed in the European Parliament. This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary pool of guest speakers to discuss the risks of AI for democracy in Europe as well as the potential and limits of regulations like the AI Act. 

09.30 – 9.45: Introduction: Regulating AI – the EU as the first mover, by Katja Langenbucher, Affiliated Professor at Sciences Po

09.45 – 11.00:  Panel Discussion with representatives of International Organizations, EU, and National Government

11.15 – 13.00: Regulating AI – Perspectives from Sociology, Philosophy and Law

• Marion Fourcade, Professor, UC Berkeley Sociology Department
• Antoinette Rouvroy, philosophe juridique, chercheuse au Fonds de la recherche scientifique (FRS-FNRS) à Namur, Belgique
• Gérard Hertig, Professeur de droit à l’ETH de Zurich.

14.30 – 16.30: Regulating AI – Ethics and IT

• Mark Coeckelberg, Professor of Philosophy, Vice Dean at University of Vienna
• Seda Gürses, Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management
• Jean-Marie John-Mathews, Data Scientist et co-fondateur de Giskard AI.

16.15 – 16.30: Concluding remarks

This conference is organised by the Sciences Po Law School’s Working Group on “Governing AI in a democracy”, which is part of the project “Towards a New Digital Rule of Law” funded by the McCourt Institute.

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