“Converging Realms” Conference
On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.
As a copyright expert and head of the Institute for Open Data and Intellectual Property ODIPI, and national and regional coordinator of Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21), Maja attended a panel discussing research and artificial intelligence (AI+research). She spoke mainly about the need to empower researchers with a predictable legal environment for their work, and pointed out that the field of research needs a special Digital Knowledge Act, which would regulate issues, especially in the field of copyright law, specifically for research and science.
She emphasized that good generative artificial intelligence needs good data. And that we need to make well-considered decisions, which we have to make as humanity, so that we can “seize” opportunities and prevent risks. Two human qualities can hinder us in this: greed and the mistaken belief that the problem is not happening to us personally.
Good artificial intelligence that will serve people needs good “data”, including copyrighted works. Both Slovenia and Poland are building a large language model, and both societies are facing a major challenge. Makers of generative AI are taking advantage of whatever resources they can grab. How to establish a system so that good artificial intelligence can be built in the future, which will work for the good of people and the planet, for which a lot of high-quality “data” is needed. Maja has been intensively dealing with this area from a copyright perspective since 2018, and for the past four years she has even co-chaired the Working Group on Data Governance for Artificial Intelligence in GPAI 1.0.
Recordings and presentations from all speakers at the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia are now available on the subpage “Recordings and PPTs of Presentations by Speakers“.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI invites you to a discussion organized by the European Commission Representation in Slovenia titled “Democracy in the Grip of Disinformation: What Can the EU Do?”. The event will take place on Friday, December 13, 2024, from 11:00 to 12:30 at the House of the EU in Ljubljana, Slovenia and online.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI organized the ERA KR21 Conference Slovenia on December 2, 2024, with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia and the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) program. The Conference focused on addressing the most pressing issues in copyright regulation in the fields of science and Open Science within the European Union (EU), with particular emphasis on barriers and incentives for Open Science in the copyright law. The event represented Slovenia’s contribution to implementing European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda Action 2, which focuses on creating a supportive EU legislative framework for copyright and data governance.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, the second day of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit 2024 took place at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič participated as a speaker, presenting during the panel titled “AI Regulation – what we learned so far?”.