The AI Act (AIA) is a landmark EU legislation to regulate Artificial Intelligence based on its capacity to cause harm. Like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the AIA could become a global standard, determining to what extent AI can have an effect on our lives wherever we might be. The AI Act is already making waves internationally. In late September, Brazil’s Congress passed a bill that creates a legal framework for artificial intelligence. The AIA adopts a risk-based approach that bans certain technologies, proposes strict regulations for "high risk" ones, and imposes stringent transparency criteria for others. The first draft of the AIA has been highly criticized and several amendments have been proposed by several stakeholder groups, the main focus being on high-risk systems and obligations for developers of these systems. There seems like there is still a long way to go before the final text is ready for approval. A crucial question is to what extent can the requirements of this regulation be enforceable.
This workshop aims at analyzing how this new regulation will shape the AI technologies of the future. We will cover issues such as the ability of the AIA requirements to be operationalized, privacy, fairness, and explainability by design, individual rights and AIA, AI risk assessment, and much more.
The workshop will bring together legal experts, tech experts and other interested stakeholders for constructive discussions. We aim at stakeholder and geographical balance. The workshop's main goal is to help the community understand and reason over the implications of an AI regulation, what problems does it solve, what problems does it not solve, what problems does it cause, discuss the new proposed amendments to the text of the AI Act, and propose new approaches that maybe have not been tackled yet.
Papers are welcome from academics, researchers, practitioners, postgraduate students, private sector, and anyone else with an interest in law and technology. Submissions with an interdisciplinary orientation are particularly welcome, e.g. works at the boundary between ML, AI, human-computer interaction, law, and ethics.
Submitted applications can include regular papers, short papers, working papers and/or extended abstracts.
The workshop will be held in person. The venue is Design Offices Macherei (more information in the conference website).
The post-proceedings of IAIL 2023 the Imagining the AI Landscape After the AI ACT, in conjunction with HHAI2023, Munich, Germany, June 27, 2023 are now published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Get Started!Do we already have the technology to comply with the proposed regulation? How to operationalize the privacy,
fairness, and explainability requirements of the AI Act? To what extent does the AI act protect individual
rights? How can redress be accomplished? What are the best methods to perform a risk assessment of AI
applications? Do we need to define new metrics for validating the goodness of an AI system in terms of
privacy, fairness, and explainability? What methods to assess the quality of the datasets need to be created
to be compliant with the current proposal for the AI regulation? How is it possible to deliver a process
that effectively certificates AI? How will the proposed AI Act impact non-EU tech companies operating in the
EU? Will this make the EU the leader of AI market regulation?
If these questions form part of your research interest, we would be glad to hear from you.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Papers intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas are welcome from academics, researchers, practitioners, postgraduate students, private sector, and anyone else with an interest in law and technology.
Submissions with an interdisciplinary orientation are particularly welcome, e.g. works at the boundary between machine learning, AI, human-computer interaction, law, digital philosopher, and ethics.
We encourage authors to submit both research papers and position papers. Research papers present completed and validated research, whereas position papers present an arguable opinion about one of the workshop topics of interest. Both types of contribution can be of regular (12–15+ pages) or short length (6-8+ pages) and should be original, previously unpublished work.
We also encourage authors to submit extended abstracts that present a very early stage of research or previously published work. This latter type of contributions will not be published in the proceedings.
The typical paper length for each type of contribution is described in the previous paragraph. However, there is no strict rule regarding a maximum page limit, authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution.
All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using double-blind peer review. We accept both LaTeX and Word files formatted according to CEUR-WS format. You can find the LaTeX templates at this link too.
Please ensure that your submission is anonymous. Authors are expected to remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper. Authors should also remove any information in the acknowledgements section that reveals authors or the institution. Finally, authors are required to cite their own work in the third person. Note: Papers that violate the anonymization policy will be desk rejected.
The post-proceedings of IAIL 2023 the Imagining the AI Landscape After the AI ACT, in conjunction with HHAI2023, Munich, Germany, June 27, 2023 are now published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Electronic submissions will be handled via Easychair.
Authors who submit their work to IAIL2023 commit themselves to present their paper at the workshop in case of acceptance. IAIL2023 considers the author list submitted with the paper as final. No additions or deletions to this list may be made after paper submission, either during the review period, or in case of acceptance, at the final camera ready stage.
Papers must be written in English.
Condition for inclusion in the workshop proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has presented the paper at the workshop.
Submit the paperPaper Submission: April 23, 2023 April 30, 2023 (new deadline)
Acceptance Notification: May 22, 2023
Camera-ready submission: June 18, 2023
Main workshop: June 27, 2023
| Time | Activity |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and Overview of the workshop - Desara Dushi |
| 9:15-10:00 | Invited Talk - Josep Domingo Ferrer |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Fireside chat - Gregor Strojin |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:35 | Paper presentations - Session 1 |
| 14:35-15:00 | Open mike |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:35 | Paper presentations - Session 2 |
| 16:35-16:45 | Open mike |
| 16:45-17:00 | Closing remarks |
1. each abstract / short paper will have 15 minutes for the presentation plus 5 minutes for Q&A
2. each regular paper will have 20 minutes for the presentation plus 5 minutes for Q&A
However, more questions can be asked during the Open Mike Sessions.
| Time | Paper |
| 13:30-13:50 | How SMEs Ought to Operationalize AI Risk Assessments Under the AI Act ▪ Fabienne Ufert and Zachary Goldberg |
| 13:50-14:10 | Trustworthy AI in the dental care beyond Artificial Intelligence Act ▪ Natália Slosiarová, Matúš Mesarčík, Peter Jurkáček and Juraj Podroužek |
| 14:10-14:35 | Analysis of the Classification of Medical Device Software in the AI Act Proposal ▪ Karla Aniela Cepeda Zapata, Ritesh Patil, Tomás Ward, Róisín Loughran and Fergal McCaffery |
| Time | Paper |
| 15:30-15:50 | The risks associated with generative AI apps in the European Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) ▪ Maryna Vahabava |
| 15:50-16:10 | Holding the AI Act accountable ▪ Irina Carnat |
| 16:10-16:35 | The Ethical Impact Assessment of Selling Life Insurance to Titanic Passengers ▪ Gizem Gezici, Chiara Mannari and Lorenzo Orlandi |
Any inquiry can be posed to Francesca Pratesi and Desara Dushi,
sending an email with tag [IAIL2023] to
francesca [dot] pratesi [at] isti [dot] cnr [dot] it
or
desara [dot] dushi [at] vub [dot] be
