What is the role and positioning of the EU in the global AI landscape? What multilateral efforts to regulate AI is the EU invested in? What global political and economy forces are at play? What is the role of global standard bodies? What is the role of the EU AI diplomacy ?
We will address these questions with the help of Dr. Daniel Mügge, Professor of Political Arithmetic at the Political Science Department of the University of Amsterdam, and Dr. Marta Cantero Gamito, Research Fellow, Chair in AI & Democracy of the Florence School of Transnational Regulation (European University Institute). The discussion is moderated by Dr Stefania Milan, Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Research Associate with the Chair in AI & Democracy.
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Panellists:
Marta Cantero Gamito is Research Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI). She is also Associate Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of Tartu since 2018. Before joining the STG, Marta previously worked at CUNEF Universidad, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Helsinki. She holds a PhD in Law and an LL.M in Comparative, European and International Law from the European University Institute. Marta has also held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Max-Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrech, and Berkman Klein Center (Harvard Law School).
Marta investigates the regulation and governance of technology, with a focus on transnational private regulation and standardization. Her research aims at evaluating the suitability and identifying the limitations of private regulation and governance for addressing contemporary problems that affect social values and fundamental rights.
She has published several articles on telecommunications, digital platforms, standardization, and artificial intelligence. Marta has co-edited books on Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms (Springer, 2020), The role of the EU in Transnational Legal Ordering: Standards, Contracts, and Codes (Edward Elgar, 2020), and The Transformation of Economic Law (Hart, 2019).
Daniel Mügge is Professor of Political Arithmetic at the political science department of the UvA. His current research investigates the European governance of artificial intelligence (AI). At the UvA, he leads the RegulAite project team, which is funded by a 2022 NWO Vici grant. That work concentrates on "AI diplomacy", the EU's external relations in the AI field - both with other countries such as China and the USA, as well as its role in multilateral efforts to regulate AI. Daniel is also co-initiator of the Citizens, Society and AI (CiSAI) research platform at the UvA and one of the leaders of the Research Priority Area "AI & Politics".
His previous work had focused on the political economy of macroeconomic indicators and was supported by an NWO Vidi grant and an ERC Starting grant. You can find the work of the whole research team on the FickleFormulas project website.
Daniel spent the first half of 2012 as a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; he returned to spend the whole academic year 2014/15 there, as well. For the 2020/21 academic year, Daniel returned to his alma mater - the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin - as an Alexander von Humboldt-fellow.
Moderator:
Stefania Milan works at the intersection of political participation, technology, and governance, with emphasis on infrastructure and agency. She is Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Chair in AI & Democracy, School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute) and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University).