The EU Artificial Intelligence Act

With its Artificial Intelligence Act, the EU wants to ensure that Europeans can trust in what AI has to offer. The EU AI Act will introduce an approach of evaluating risks of AI systems on the principles of ethical AI. Its impact will be felt widely across different industries as the law creates new regulatory obligations for AI tools used in education, industrial AI, medical devices, the car industry, machinery, financial services, etc. 

The AI act does not directly target research. However, universities and their partners often work very close to the market in developing new technologies and systems for AI. How can researchers anticipate the new requirements?

Another focus of the discussion will lie on the new requirements on ethics in AI. But what does that mean for researchers in practice? Do all researchers need to build expertise on ethics and AI? What will the EU AI Act mean for research-industry collaboration, for university start-ups, and for researchers working in ‘high-risk’ AI areas?

15:00  Welcome
Tatiana Panteli, Head of the EuroTech Brussels Office

15:05  Setting the scene: The Artificial Intelligence Act from a researcher’s perspective
Sveta Zinger, Associate Professor in Digital Image Analysis Technologies for Healthcare, Eindhoven University of Technology

15:15  Responding to the Artificial Intelligence Act
Panel discussion, moderated by Charlotte van Velthoven

• Kilian Gross
  Head of the Artificial Intelligence Policy Development and Coordination Unit, European Commission
• Wassim Bouaziz
  PhD Student at École Polytechnique & Meta AI
• Sneha Das
  Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark
• Jean-Pierre Hubaux
  Academic Director of the Center for Digital Trust at EPFL
  Co-Founder of Tune Insight
• Sveta Zinger
  Associate Professor in Digital Image Analysis Technologies for Healthcare, Eindhoven University of Technology

16:25  Wrap-up
Charlotte van Velthoven, Moderator

16:30  End

Audience

This event is open to all.

Further information

For further information, please contact Maria Sigutina, liaison officer EPFL and TU/e.

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