For the first edition of this year’s series, we are pleased to invite you to join us on 29. April 2025 for an insightful lecture delivered by our guest speaker, Lisa Soder, on "Governing Frontier AI: Status Check, Technical Hurdles & Next Frontiers".
Lisa Soder is a Senior AI Policy Researcher at Interface, a prominent European tech policy think tank, and incoming Visiting Research Fellow at the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory. Her work centers on building robust AI accountability infrastructures and closing the gap between technical innovation and regulatory oversight. Before joining interface, she served as a Summer Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (Oxford), worked as a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, and led a global health NGO in Ethiopia. She holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, specializing in comparative transatlantic approaches to technology regulation and competition law.
The lecture, entitled "Governing Frontier AI: Status Check, Technical Hurdles & Next Frontiers", will explore the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence governance. Two years after the first “ChatGPT moment,” the EU AI Act’s rules on advanced general-purpose AI will soon take effect. Time to take stock: have the regulation’s ambitions to be future-proof truly kept pace with rapid technical developments, or are new gaps emerging? And as the next generation of AI emerges—particularly with the rise of AI agents—how far can and should existing laws stretch? Taking a Technical AI Governance perspective, this session will examine the need for collaboration between legal and technical experts to turn policy ambitions into real oversight.
The TeamID breakfast lecture will take place in Josef-Hupka-Zimmer at Juridicum on 29. April 2025, from 9:30 until 10:30. While the session is primarily intended for academic staff, it is not limited to participants from the Law Faculty and we encourage anyone interested to join us.
As space is limited, please register here until 28. April 2025.
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
