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The EU’s AI Act: How it came about and how it regulates AI

With the AI Act, the EU has launched the first comprehensive regulatory framework for “Artificial Intelligence” systems. An ambitious, challenging and urgent endeavour: Rapid technological development is taking place globally, and mostly outside of Europe. AI is already being used in all areas of life, with undeniable economic benefits, but also obvious risks for liberal democracy and its values. Which technologies are considered “Artificial Intelligence”, though, is not clearly defined. Rather, this fuzzy buzzword covers all kinds of IT and robotic systems with capabilities that go beyond those of conventional automation. A legal framework, such as the one that is about to be introduced in Europe, must be wisely drafted and flexible in order to do justice to this complex situation. Has the European AI regulation achieved this?

Domenik Wendt is Professor of Civil Law, European Business Law and European Law at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and an expert on AI law. He has closely followed the development of the AI Act from the very outset, adopting both an academic and a practice-orientated perspective. In this episode of Digitalgespräch, he describes the process the regulation has gone through: From the context of the EU commission’s first initiative and its underlying idea and objective, to the heated discussions between the stakeholders involved with their various interests and basic political stances, to the content of the final draft that is now set to be adopted. Together with hosts Marlene Görger and Petra Gehring, Wendt discusses how the AI Act is perceived and evaluated internationally, whether critics are right to point out weaknesses, and how companies, lawyers and scientists have to take action in order to bring this abstract legal framework into reality.

Episode 48 of Digitalgespräch, feat. Domenik Wendt of Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, 5 March 2024
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Link to the press release of the Federal Ministry of Justice dated 2 February 2024: https://www.bmj.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2024/0202_KI-VO.html?cms_mtm_campaign=linksFromNewsletter

Website of Research Lab for Law and applied Technologies: https://www.frankfurt-university.de/en/about-us/faculty-3-business-and-law/research-and-transfer/research-labs/rellate/

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Fully automated agreements? What are benefits of „Smart Contracts“?

Das Coverbild des Digitalgespräch-Podcasts. Folge 19 mit Nikolas Guggenberger
Das Coverbild des Digitalgespräch-Podcasts. Folge 19 mit Nikolas Guggenberger

Even if not all of us are experts in civil law, we routinely enter into contractual obligations with each other in everyday life. Whether we buy bread rolls, take out life insurance or book a flight – we trust that we can rely on each other. And if something does go wrong, laws or even courts settle the dispute. At first glance, the internet as a market place doesn’t make much of a difference. We simply order online instead of by phone or postcard like our grandparents We click and everything from loans to share purchases is done in a flash. Nothing else changes – right? Perhaps it is worth taking a closer look. Because automation shifts balanced rules in the background of contracts that we often don’t even know about. And the hype surrounding smart contracts shows that digitality may have great potential to change our understanding of mutual obligation. Technology is supposed to make automated contract processing possible that, at least in theory, works without trust – neither in each other nor in governmental institutions. But to what extent would that be progress?

Nikolas Guggenberger researches and teaches at Yale Law School on the automation of law and its impact on society. Previously, the legal scholar was a junior professor at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law at the University of Münster. In this episode of Digitalgespräch, Guggenberger explains where digitality makes a difference to our contractual practice and sheds light on the background to the buzzword “smart contract.” With hosts Marlene Görger and Petra Gehring, he discusses whether sophisticated technology could replace the law and clarifies where German laws set limits to automation that the legal system in the U.S., for example, does not necessarily recognise.

Episode 19 of Digitalgespräch, feat. Nikolas Guggenberger of Yale Law School, 22 March 2022

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Link to the Information Society Project :
https://law.yale.edu/isp/

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Communicating, progressing, enabling: How does a Digital Minister make politics?

Das Coverbild des Digitalgespräch-Podcasts. Folge 14 mit Kristina Sinemus
Das Coverbild des Digitalgespräch-Podcasts. Folge 14 mit Kristina Sinemus

For a long time, digitalisation was a process that progessed without systematic political control, releasing potential for drastic change in all areas of life. In recent years, however, a political awareness has emerged for the disruptions that have occurred. How effective digital politics can offer steering mechanisms for a digital transformation, fit to harness the potential of digitality for society while at the same time responsibly countering a wide variety of new risks – this itself is subject of political discourse. One strategy can be the introduction of dedicated digital departments or so-called “digital ministries”, which a few federal states have made first attempts on in recent years. Hence, digital politicians are emerging who are the first in their guild to level a completely new field.

Kristina Sinemus is the Hessian Minister for Digital Strategy and Innovation and one of the first dedicated ministers for digital matters in Germany. The professor of public affairs and former entrepreneur took over her newly created office at the end of 2019. In this episode of Digitalgespräch, Sinemus explains how she built up her department with its central tasks in terms of organisation, content and strategy, and what hurdles had to be overcome in the process. With hosts Marlene Görger and Petra Gehring, she discusses how priorities can be set in the complex field of digitisation, what role citizen dialogue plays and how political strategies regarding a state such as Hesse relate to European digital politics.

Episode 14 of Digitalgespräch, feat. Kristina Sinemus, Hessian Minister for Digital Strategy and Innovation, 14 December 2021

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Link to the Digital Hessen Strategy: https://www.digitalstrategie-hessen.de/dynasite.cfm?dsmid=513901

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Data surgery? Intelligent technology in the operating theatre

The cover image of the Digitalgespräche-podcast. Episode 5 with Stefanie Speidel

In recent years, rapid advances in computer science and AI research have brought an overwhelming variety of technological innovations into the view of policymakers and the public. While promising great benefits and new possibilities, their potential also raises pressing questions – the prediction that AI will change the world is ambivalent. In order to understand how this change is taking place, we need to look into details: What kind of intelligent systems are we talking about in each case? What aims are they developed for, how will they be used, and what role will humans play in those scenari-os? Answers to these questions arise at the interfaces between computer science and our reality of life and are therefore as specific as the resulting AI systems themselves.

One of these interfaces is the field of translational surgical oncology, i.e. the development of AI systems in surgical cancer therapy. Computer scientist Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel teaches and researches at the National Center for Tumor Diseases in Dresden and develops intelligent systems for the operating theatre as well as surgical training. In the fifth episode of Digitalgespräch, she explains the tools she and her colleagues are developing, how she is collaborating with scientists and practitioners of other disciplines, as well as patients and industry partners, and clarifies the question of whether human experts or artificial neural networks will make the vital decisions during operations in the future. With ZEVEDI hosts Marlene Görger and Petra Gehring she discusses how physicians and patients can benefit from AI systems, what obstacles have to be overcome during the long development process ahead – but also what active role patients will play in this.

Episode 5 of Digitalgespräch feat. Stefanie Speidel, National Center for Tumor Deseases in Dresden, 20 Juli 2021

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Link to the website of the Department of Translational Surgical Oncology at the NCT/UCC Dresden:
https://www.nct-dresden.de/en/research/departments-and-groups/translational-surgical-oncology.html

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AI and Finance

The cover image of the Digitalgespräche-podcast. Episode 4 with Florian Möslein

Finance has always been geared to gaining knowledge about economic conditions and developments through skillful analysis of cleverly generated data. Over the centuries, it has undergone a number of innovation processes. We are now in the midst of dynamic developments that are characterized by digitality – and as is the case in many other places, technologies that are counted as artificial intelligence are becoming more and more important. Florian Möslein is a legal scholar who teaches and researches at Philipps University of Marburg. In this fourth episode of “Digitalgespräch”, the expert on digitality and innovation talks about applications of Artificial Intelligence as seen today in the financial markets. With hosts Marlene Görger and Petra Gehring, he discusses the challenges that the digitization of financial markets poses for market participants, politics and society.

Episode 4 of Digitalgespräch, feat. Florian Möslein of Philipps-Universität Marburg, 6 Juli 20211

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Link to Florian Möslein’s department at the University of Marburg:
https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb01/professuren/zivilrecht/prof-dr-florian-moesleinhttps://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb01/professuren/zivilrecht/prof-dr-florian-moeslein

Link to Wikipedia article on Gamestop stock affair in early 2021:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze

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