The AI Act (AIA) is a landmark EU legislation to regulate Artificial Intelligence based on its capacity to cause harm. Like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the AIA is set to become the global benchmark for regulating Artificial Intelligence. The Brussels effect has been noticed already at the draft level, with other regions taking similar initiatives of regulating AI. The regulation of AI has become particularly important with the introduction of generative AI, its impact, and its potential for abuse in many areas of our lives, which led to extensive changes to the draft text of the AIA. The trialogue negotiations between the Commission, Parliament, and Council for the final version of the AIA ended on 8 December 2023 and we will soon have the final version of the AIA text. The text has significantly changed from its first version as proposed by the European Commission in 2021.
This workshop aims to analyze how this new regulation will shape the AI technologies of the future and their impact on our lives. We will cover issues such as the ability of the AIA requirements to be operationalized, privacy, fairness, and explainability by design, individual rights and AIA, generative AI, AI risk assessment, and much more.
The workshop will bring together legal experts, tech experts, and other interested stakeholders for constructive discussions. We aim at stakeholder and geographical balance. The workshop's main goal is to help the community understand and reason over the implications of an AI regulation, what problems does it solve, what problems does it not solve, what problems does it cause, discuss the new proposed amendments to the text of the AI Act, and propose new approaches that maybe have not been tackled yet.
Papers are welcome from academics, researchers, practitioners, postgraduate students, private sector, and anyone else with an interest in law and technology. Submissions with an interdisciplinary orientation are particularly welcome, e.g. works at the boundary between ML, AI, human-computer interaction, law, and ethics.
Submitted applications can include regular papers, short papers, working papers and/or extended abstracts.
The workshop will be held in person. The venue is Malmö University’s Niagara building (more information in the conference website).
The post-proceedings of IAIL 2024 the Imagining the AI Landscape After the AI ACT, in conjunction with HHAI2024, Malmö, Sweden, June 10, 2024 will be published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Get Started!Do we already have the technology to comply with the proposed regulation? How to operationalize the privacy,
fairness, and explainability requirements of the AI Act? To what extent does the AI act protect individual
rights? How can redress be accomplished? What are the best methods to perform a risk assessment of AI
applications? Do we need to define new metrics for validating the goodness of an AI system in terms of
privacy, fairness, and explainability? What methods to assess the quality of the datasets need to be created
to be compliant with the current proposal for the AI regulation? How is it possible to deliver a process
that effectively certificates AI? How will the proposed AI Act impact non-EU tech companies operating in the
EU? Will this make the EU the leader of AI market regulation?
If these questions form part of your research interest, we would be glad to hear from you.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Papers intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas are welcome from academics, researchers, practitioners, postgraduate students, private sector, and anyone else with an interest in law and technology.
Submissions with an interdisciplinary orientation are particularly welcome, e.g. works at the boundary between machine learning, AI, human-computer interaction, law, digital philosopher, and ethics.
We encourage authors to submit both research papers and position papers. Research papers present completed and validated research, whereas position papers present an arguable opinion about one of the workshop topics of interest. Both types of contribution can be of regular (12–15+ pages) or short length (6-8+ pages) and should be original, previously unpublished work.
We also encourage authors to submit extended abstracts that present a very early stage of research or previously published work. This latter type of contributions will not be published in the proceedings.
The typical paper length for each type of contribution is described in the previous paragraph. However, there is no strict rule regarding a maximum page limit, authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution.
All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using double-blind peer review. We accept both LaTeX and Word files formatted according to CEUR-WS format. You can find the LaTeX templates at this link too.
Please ensure that your submission is anonymous. Authors are expected to remove author and
institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper. Authors should also remove
any information in the acknowledgements section that reveals authors or the institution. Finally,
authors are required to cite their own work in the third person.
Note: Papers that violate the
anonymization policy will be desk rejected.
The post-proceedings of IAIL 2023 the Imagining the AI Landscape After the AI ACT, in conjunction with HHAI2024, Malmö, Sweden, June 10, 2024 will be pulished on CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Electronic submissions will be handled via Easychair.
Authors who submit their work to IAIL2024 commit themselves to present their paper at the workshop in case of acceptance. IAIL2024 considers the author list submitted with the paper as final. No additions or deletions to this list may be made after paper submission, either during the review period, or in case of acceptance, at the final camera ready stage.
Papers must be written in English.
Condition for inclusion in the workshop proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has presented the paper at the workshop.
Submit the paperPaper Submission: March 30, 2024 April 14, 2022 (new deadline!)
Acceptance Notification: May 2, 2024
Camera-ready submission: June 1, 2024
Main workshop: June 10, 2024
| Time | Activity |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and Overview of the workshop - Desara Dushi |
| 9:15-10:30 | Invited Talk - 1 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Fireside chat - 2 |
| 12:30-13:00 | Open mike |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 | Paper presentations - Session 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 | Open mike |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Paper presentations - Session 2 |
| 17:00-17:20 | Open mike |
| 17:20-17:30 | Closing remarks |
Any inquiry can be posed to Francesca Pratesi and Desara Dushi,
sending an email with tag [IAIL2024] to
francesca [dot] pratesi [at] isti [dot] cnr [dot] it
or
desara [dot] dushi [at] vub [dot] be
