The IV Cycle of Seminaris OEIAC about "Ethics, social impact and legal fulfilment" is as the ethical considerations often configure the laws and, at the same time, as the legal rules they can influence on the ethical considerations, generally with the objective of promoting the social welfare and protecting the rights of the persons. Sometimes, however, situations in which the legal standards and the ethical considerations come into conflict can appear and, in these cases, an analysis of the needs of the interested parts is necessary since the ethical principles and the evaluations of social impact often go beyond the legal requirements to approach needs and expectations of the society. A clear example of this is the Law of Artificial Intelligence (IA) of the European Union recently approved and known as AI Act, which not just has to become a frame of evaluation and protection towards the risks of the IA, but also an instrument of guarantees of individual rights, welfare of the community, social values and environmental protection.
However, in this moment is considered that the AI Act does not have a vision extensive enough and centred in the persons since it does not protect right enough fundamental as the privacy, the equality or the no discrimination. Although the regulations include evaluations of impact about the fundamental rights, there are still doubts about which it will be the real scope that they will have these evaluations, among others because the defolders of systems d'IA will only have to specify which measures will be adopted once the risks are materialised. On the other hand, there is not forcing of implying interested parts as the civil society and the persons affected by the IA in the evaluation process are. This means that civil society organisations will not have a direct and legally binding way to contribute to impact assessments. Taking into account that there has to be the right to an explanation of the processes of decision making individual, especially for the catalogued systems d'IA as of high risk, this brings up questions about the access to the information and the obtaining of explanations on the part of the defolders of systems d'IA. This aspect is regarded as particularly relevant given the absence of considerations such as the right to the representation of natural persons or the capacity of the organisations of public interest for lodging complaints with the controlling bodies. Finally, it be necessary to remark another important point it is that the AI Act only a first step makes to approach the environmental impacts of the IA and, this, in spite of the increasing worry in that how the exponential use of the systems d'IA can have severe impacts in the environment.
In order to bring some answers and, of course, also to open more questions about the complex interaction among the ethics, the legislation and the technology, the OEIAC start this new cycle of seminars of transfer from knowledge with persons invited of farming implement that they work and promote the uses ethical and responsible for the IA.
The OEIAC Seminar Cycle starts on Wednesday, 29 May, and will run until 15 November, the day of its closing ceremony. This cycle is aimed at anybody who is interested in AI in general and in its ethical and responsible uses in particular, as well as from the public and private sector. All seminars will be free.
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