Our last TeamID Breakfast Lecture was held on 12 September 2024 by Nicole West Bassoff, a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS). You can read a reflection on our kick-off event in this blog post.
For the next edition of this series, we are delighted to welcome you on 3 December 2024 for a lecture by Fabian Lütz. Mr. Lütz is an academic working on questions concerning the regulation of AI, gender equality and non-discrimination. He is currently the Legal Officer at Equinet on AI and equality/non-discrimination in the framework of the Project Equality-proofing AI systems: “Equality by Design, Deliberation and Oversight” and is finalizing his PhD at the University of Lausanne on this very topic, with a particular focus on AI, Gender and Algorithmic Discrimination from a European Law perspective. He is a former Legal Officer of the European Commission (DG Justice) and has more than 10 years of experience in law firms and administration.
Mr. Lütz’s lecture will provide an overview and compare how issues of gender biases and algorithmic discrimination are addressed within Europe, pointing also to some developments at the United Nations level. It will also tell the journey of how a gender equality flavor and the protection of fundamental rights were incorporated into the AI Act, showing advantages and shortcomings of the AI Regulation. In this breakfast lecture, he will shed some light on whether the first worldwide regulations on AI, the Artificial Intelligence Act of the EU and the Framework Convention on AI of the Council of Europe sufficiently address issues of gender equality and non-discrimination law and will sketch out what could be done in the future. To this end, he will offer an analysis of the substantive provisions of the legislative frameworks through the lens of gender equality and non-discrimination law, highlighting high-risk AI systems and their regulatory requirements and some of the proposed tools, such as technical standard setting, fundamental rights impact assessments and bias audits to reduce gender biases and discriminatory risk. Furthermore, in his lecture, he will assess the enforcement landscape, which involves a discussion of the respective roles of the AI Office and its cooperation with national, European, and international bodies for gender equality enforcement.
The TeamID breakfast lecture will take place in SEM33 at the Juridicum on 3 December 2024 between 09:30-10:30. 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 1 December 2024. Attendance is free of charge.
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
