The EU AI Regulation aims to establish a common European framework for the regulation of AI systems for the first time. However, geopolitical tensions and pushback from industry have led the EU Commission to present a proposal that scales back key provisions of the regulation and other European legislation, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation. In addition, the specific design of supervision is left to the Member States, where different national traditions, legal frameworks and understandings of institutional independence converge. This not only raises the risk of inconsistent application of the regulation, which enables regulatory arbitrage, but also means that parts of the regulation itself are transferred back to the political process.
Against this backdrop, the ‘AI Supervision (AI-Sup)’ project group is focusing on the institutional foundations of artificial intelligence supervision and investigating the extent to which the independence of AI supervision is mandatory under European law and justifiable in terms of democratic theory. At the same time, the focus is on the question of how Germany and other European countries can translate the requirements of the EU AI Regulation into viable institutional models.
Principal Investigators
Prof. Dr. Katja Langenbucher, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt | Sprecherin | more information
Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein, Philipps-Universität Marburg | Stellvertretender Sprecher | more information
Prof. Dr. Nathalie Behnke, Technische Universität Darmstadt | more information
Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, Universität Kassel | more information
Prof. Dr. Emanuel Mönch, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management | more information
