The workshop aims at fostering discussion about the state of the art on regulations for AI and how to use AI for regulations 

(and more generally in the legal domain). 

In the first quarter of 2024 the EU Parliament enacted the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act),  a landmark piece of legislation, regulating AI systems deployed in the European Union. Therefore, in less than two years, it will be necessary to put in place systems that ensure compliance, despite the continuing generic nature of the guidelines to achieve compliance.

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) devices in almost every field has become both ubiquitous and inevitable. The recent AI Act establishes guidelines for the use of AI in different fields and mandates certification of compliance to enter the EU Market.

The AI Act is purposely structured to regulate the use of AI systems, describing requirements, limits, and obligations. It does not specifically refer to a single AI, but it takes a risk-based approach to AI regulation, providing a scale of risk related to the use of AI in a specific field. The higher the risk, the stricter the rules, which means that the more an AI system has the potential or the capacity to cause harm to society, the more requirements it will have to comply with.

This framework brings to light a lot of issues. Not only about the creation or the implementation of the AI device themselves, but also legal or ethical aspects about their use, mostly in the so called high risk sectors (e.g. healthcare or justice). Is it possible to use AI in these fields and/or until which limit? Which are the limits of their use in each different field? Which are the strong and weak points in using them? They are transparent, accurate, trustable; at all or with which assumptions?

The European Union was one of the first major jurisdictions to introduce a comprehensive legislation for AI, and it is expected that many more jurisdictions will follow the EU lead. 

The IT market is a global and transnational market, where one system is developed in a country and deployed in another, and accessed in a third one. Accordingly, in this trans-jurisdictional context the actual AI Act will have an impact not only in the European market but also in the worldwide market. Other countries will regulate the AI systems, this implies that harmonization of these norms will be desirable for the market and the enterprises in the field, and will be inevitable the impact of the first strong restrictive regulations of some countries, on the following regulations and on the economy on the global market.

Given the complexity of modern AI systems, it is likely that solutions to certify the compliance of AI tools will be AI systems themselves. Also, with the rapid growth of AI solutions more AI tools will be used in the Law and Legal professions. Thus, AI tools can prove beneficial in the legal domain. The judicial and legal domain are deemed as sensitive and high risk domains. Accordingly, what are the AI tools beneficial to the legal domain? What are the areas of legal domain where AI tools can be successful, and if they need to be certified against AI regulation, how can we certify these AI systems?

The topics of the workshop about Artificial Intelligence, Compliance and Automatization of compliance greatly suit the legal informatic subjects covered in Jurix Conference.

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