Global Conference on AI and Human Rights
The Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana will host a two-day Global conference on artificial intelligence and human rights from 13 June to 14 June 2024 under the conference chair of Prof. Dr. Vasilka Sancin and under the patronage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The conference will be divided into 16 panels covering different areas:
- AI and Human Rights Developments within the Council of Europe and the European Union;
- AI, Rights to Health and Healthcare;
- AI and Governance;
- AI and Education;
- AI and Privacy;
- AI and Rights of Women and Children;
- AI, Fair Trial, Right to Effective Remedy and Access to Justice;
- AI, Human Rights and Environment;
- AI, Military Domain and Respect of Human Rights in Armed Conflict Situations;
- AI and Discrimination;
- AI and Human Rights in the Metaverse;
- AI and Migration;
- AI and Law Enforcement;
- AI and Intellectual Property: Revolution or Robbery?;
- AI, Space and Human Rights; and
- National and Regional Approaches to AI.
Registration is possible here. The full program is available here.
Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič (ODIPI) will take part in the 14th panel and present the topic “Can Copyright Bring Generative AI to its Knees?” on Friday, 14 June 2024, at 2 pm in the red room.
You are cordially invited.
In June 2024, the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) network and Communia, published research findings in a publication entitled Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights, which was authored by professors Christophe Geiger and Bernd Justin Jütte.
On Thursday, July 4, 2024, TV SLO 1 aired a new show Conversations about the Future with the subtitle Alternative Futures, in which three guests reflected on the dilemmas and opportunities of an increasingly digitized society. In addition to Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič from ODIPI, were also anthropologists Dr. Dan Podjed from ZRC SAZU and computer engineer Dr. Blaž Zupan from the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics UL.
In the first week of July 2024, the Summer Course on International Copyright Law and Policy took place in Amsterdam, which was also attended by the young researcher Laura Pipan from ODIPI.
On Friday, June 14, 2024, the second day of the Global Conference on AI and Human Rights took place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič gave a lecture as part of the 14th panel entitled AI and Intellectual Property: Revolution or Robbery?