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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND THE RIGHT TO LIFE
Under the Patronage of UNESCO
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Raziskovalni projekt
DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LIGHT OF THE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE OBLIGATIONS OF THE STATE TO GUARANTEE THE RIGHT TO LIFE
Use of AI by States may lead to a breach of their negative obligation to respect the right to life, which could occur for instance during the use of autonomous weapons systems that are being led by AI or in the development of databases for health, transport, regulatory or other purposes, in view of the negative obligation of States to respect the right to life.
AI, however, can also be used to fulfil the positive obligations of States to guarantee the right to life, as for instance in preventing environmental pollution, deadly diseases, hunger and poverty.
This research project conducts research and analyses, as well as determines the main concepts on development and use of AI technology in line with the obligation to guarantee the right to life both in terms of negative and positive obligations of States.
UPCOMING EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
As part of the 6th conference
RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (R2P)
IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
organised by the head of the project group, prof. dr. Vasilka Sancin,
a panel on Artificial Intelligence has been included. It was moderated by prof. dr. Vasilka Sancin while two members of the project team, dr. Maruša Tekavičič Veber andas. Tadeja Urbas have presented their papers thereon.
The conference took place on 11th and 12th May 2023,
at the Faculty of Law of UL.
It is the sixth conference in the series of biennial international interdisciplinary scientific conferences entitled Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice. The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for scholars and practitioners from around the world to engage in an interdisciplinary academic debate on the theoretical and practical implications of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle. The presentations will address both the theoretical issues related to the implementation of R2P in crisis situations, as well as the practical problems arising from the handling of crisis cases with the potential to reach dimensions that require the invocation of R2P.
As part of the symposium
LAW IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
organised by the Institute of Comparative Law, the head of the project group,
Prof. Dr. Vasilka Sancin, will hold a presentation on the topic of
artificial intelligence and human rights.
The symposium will take place on 17 March 2023,
at the Faculty of Law of UL.
RECENT EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
Project group of Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana organized
ROUND TABLE:
THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PRACTICE: INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE LAW PERSPECTIVES
The round table took place on Tuesday, 15th November 2022
in the Golden Lecture Hall at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana
and was accessible to follow online.
The panel was composed of Prof. Yuval Shany, Hebrew University and
Rebeca Moreno Jimenez, UNHCR Innovation Service. The event was moderated by
by Prof. Dr. Vasilka Sancin, Head of the project group of the Faculty of Law, UL.
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Project group of Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana
organised
SYMPOSIUM:
ENSURING THE RIGHT TO LIFE IN THE USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The symposium took place on Thursday and Friday, 19th and 20th May 2022 in Dolenjske toplice.
Representatives of the International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO (IRCAI), namely Gašper Hrastelj, Mitja Jermol, Matej Kovačič and Mihajela Črnko, presented their activities and the UNESCO recommendations on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Prof. Yuval Shany from the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former member of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, also attended the symposium. In his lecture, he presented autonomous weapons systems and their complex relationship to the right to life.
Project group of Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana
organised
SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND SPACE LAW:
Discussion on the Legal Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and Space Law in the Future and their Impact on the Right to Life
Discussion took place on Tuesday, 26 April 2022
in the Golden Classroom of the Faculty of Law
and was accessible to follow online.
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Boštjan Koritnik
With all the technology and artificial intelligence,
the best source of knowledge is still human experience
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