Provisional Programme (subject to change)
 

Day 1, Wednesday 28 January

09:00-09:45
Welcome and introduction

09:45-10:45
Individual presentations (5 minutes per person). Please introduce yourselves and comment on how your work and interests relate to the overall symposium description. You are welcome to present with or without slides.

10:45-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:00
Individual presentations (continued) - we have allocated more time to ensure that there is sufficient space to engage each other’s presentations and to ask questions.

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-15:00
Mapping AI Risk Governance

• How is 'risk' to be understood in the AI Act? 

• Who is involved in AI risk management (e.g. method development, risk assessment, and oversight)? 

Presentation: Maciej Otmianowski (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)

15:00-15:15
Coffee break

15:15-16:45
LLMs & Risks to Rights

• Which are risks to fundamental rights posed by general-purpose AIs?

• Which measures are foreseen for treating these risks?

Presentation: Isabel Barberá (AI advisor and researcher at Rhite, NL)

16:45-17:15
Summing up

19:00
Dinner

Day 2, Thursday 29 January

09:00-09:15
Introduction to Day 2

09:15-10:30
Systemic Risk & Uncertainty

• What are ‘systemic AI risks’ and how do they differ from 'high risk' in the AIA?

• How do GPAI systemic risks challenge traditional models of uncertainty and risk governance?

Presentation: Simone Casiraghi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)

10:30-10:45
Coffee break

10:45-12:00
Risk Participation & Vulnerability

• How can vulnerability be understood regarding AI technologies and in the AI Act?

• How can and do risk bearers participate in the risk governance architecture for AI? 

Presentation: Gianclaudio Malgieri (Leiden University, NL)

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-14:30
AI Risks, Infrastructural and Regulatory Developments

• How is the risk vocabulary used to regulate AI related to its infrastructural realities and developments (e.g. EUstack)? 

• What are the implications of recent regulatory developments (e.g. Omnibus) for EU attempts to govern AI innovation?)

14:30-14:45
Coffee break

14:45-16:15
Summing up and way forward. We will ask everyone to revisit the initial presentation from Day 1. Taking into account our common discussions: how would you like to take it further? (in terms of: collaborations, networks, publications, etc.).

18:00
Dinner, for those still around