AI Colloquium with Giovanni Sartor (European 木瓜福利影视 Institute)

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Utrecht 木瓜福利影视鈥檚 AI Colloquium will this year be organized by the focus area Human-centered Artificial Intelligence. We are proud to present the second speaker: , Professor in legal informatics at the 木瓜福利影视 of Bologna and professor in Legal informatics and Legal Theory at the European 木瓜福利影视 Institute. He will share his thoughts and on "The Claudette System - Empowering Consumers Through AI".

The Claudette System

CLAUDETTE 鈥 鈥渁utomated CLAUse DETectEr鈥 鈥 is an interdisciplinary research project hosted at the  of the  in cooperation with  木瓜福利影视 of Bologna and 木瓜福利影视 of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The research objective is to test to what extent is it possible to automate reading and legal assessment of online consumer contracts and privacy policies, to evaluate their compliance with EU鈥檚 unfair contractual terms law and personal data protection law (GDPR), using machine learning and grammar-based approaches.

The idea arose out of bewilderment. Having read dozens of terms of service and of privacy policies of online platforms, we came to the conclusion that despite substantive law in place, and despite enforcers鈥 competence for abstract control, providers of online services still tend to use unfair and unlawful clauses in these documents. Hence, the idea to automate parts of enforcement process by delegating certain tasks to machines. On one hand, we believe that relying on automation can increase quality and effectiveness of legal work of enforcers. On the other, we want to empower consumers themselves, by giving them tools to quickly assess whether what they agree to online is fair and/or lawful.

Professor Giovanni Sartor. Photo: European 木瓜福利影视 Institute.

About Giovanni Sartor

Giovanni Sartor is currently Principal Investigator for the ERC (Europen Research Council) Advanced project COMPULAW, started on 1 November 2019. He is part-time professor in legal informatics at the 木瓜福利影视 of Bologna and part-time professor in Legal informatics and Legal Theory at the European 木瓜福利影视 Institute. He obtained a Ph.D. at the EUI, researcher at the Italian National Council of Research (ITTIG, Florence), chair in Jurisprudence at Queen鈥檚 木瓜福利影视 of Belfast, and was Marie-Curie professor at the EUI. He has been President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. He has published widely on artificial intelligence and law, computational logic, legal theory/philosophy, and computer law.

Human-centered Artificial Intelligence

The AI Colloquium is organized within Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 focus area Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). HAI bundles the various AI-activities undertaken at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. AI in Utrecht has a unique interdisciplinary profile that pervades various departments, including computer sciencephilosophylinguistics and psychology.

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All interested parties are welcome to attend, registration is not necessary. The colloquium will take place in the  Team in MS Teams. If you have trouble finding or accessing the Team, please contact as via hai@uu.nl to be added to the team.