AI, Law, and Agency in the Age of Machine Learning

8:30 – 9:00

Gathering & Registration

9:00 – 9:15

Greetings

Prof. Sharon Hannes, Dean, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Eric Hilgendorf, Professor for Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, University of Würzburg

Prof. Michael Birnhack, Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

9:15  – 9:30

Opening Comments

Setting the Scene: Legal Personhood, Natural Agency, and Self-Determination

Prof. Hanoch Dagan, Director,The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University

9:30 –  10:30

Legal Agency

Chair: Prof. Talia Fisher, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

• ​​How Artificial is Our Intelligence Anyway

Dr. Mickey Zar, Tel Aviv University​

• ​​​Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A Technological Basis of our Future Society

​​Prof. Sami Haddadin, Director, Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:45

AI & IP (co-sponsored by the S. Horowitz Institute for IP)

Chair: Dr. Aviv Gaon, Harry Radzyner Law School, IDC Herzliya

• The Death of the AI Author

Prof. Carys Craig, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (with Ian Kerr)

• AI Authorship, Ownership and Originality

Prof. Assaf Jacob, Harry Radzyner Law School, IDC Herzliya

11:45 – 13:00

Old Laws and New Technologies

Chair: Prof. Eric Hilgendorf, University of Würzburg

• Peripheral Boilerplate

Prof. Lauren Henry Scholz, Florida State University

• Moral Crumple Zones and the Limits of Technological Certification: A Socio-Technical Perspective

Dr. Madeleine Clare Elish, Data & Society

• Walking the Talk - Implementing Ethical Guidelines in an Organization

Dr. Christoph Peylo, Global Head of Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

13:00 – 13:45

Lunch

Artificial Decision-making

Chair: Ms. Anna Lohmann, Faculty of Law, University of Würzburg

• Reasoning, Justification and Causality: The Black Box Problem in the Automation of Administrative Decision-Making

Dr. David Roth-Isigkeit, Würzburg Center for Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence, University of Würzburg

• Contesting Algorithms

Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa      

• Looking Beyond Bias: From Algorithmic Fairness to Algorithmic Justice

Dr. Tomer Shadmy, Federmann Cyber Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Coffee Break

Learning Our Personal Data

Chair: Dr. Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv Universit

• They Don’t Need our Data​

Prof. Katrina Ligett, School of Computer Science, Hebrew University

• Transparency and Explainability under the GDPR

Mr. Paul Vogel, Research Unit RobotRecht, Faculty of Law, University of Würzburg

• AI made in the EU: Sharing Data and Implementing Explainability

Prof. Alain Strowel, UC Louvain and Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles

Making AI Policy

Chair: Ms. Annika Schömig, Faculty of Law, University of Würzburg

• Designing a National Framework for Ethics and Regulation of AI

 Concluding remarks