Regulatory sandboxes in the AI Act: reconciling innovation and safety?

Autor(en)

Thomas Buocz, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Iris Eisenberger

Abstrakt

This paper explores the regulatory sandbox regime under the EU’s draft Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. It investigates how useful the sandbox regime is for testing an AI-based skin cancer detection systems in an EU member state. The paper focuses on whether the proposed AI regulatory sandbox regime can resolve tensions between innovation and safety. Although we find considerable potential for the sandbox regime, the proposal also creates several legal issues. It blurs jurisdictional boundaries between the EU and member states, raises concerns of legality and equal treatment, creates liability risks for innovators, and fails to require informed consent from testing subjects. To address these problems, the paper suggests adopting a more targeted legal basis for the sandbox regime that takes inspiration from conventional testing mechanisms such as clinical investigations for medical devices.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Innovation und Digitalisierung im Recht

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Technische Universität München

Journal

Law, Innovation and Technology

Band

15

Seiten

357-389

Anzahl der Seiten

33

ISSN

1757-9961

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2023.2245678

Publikationsdatum

08-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

505012 Öffentliches Recht

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Computer Science (miscellaneous), Artificial Intelligence, Law, Biotechnology, Computer Science Applications

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/regulatory-sandboxes-in-the-ai-act-reconciling-innovation-and-safety(5ea669a5-5445-4737-a0b9-929ce688ee95).html