News of the Robotics Law Research Centre

Students from Bavaria and Hungary are working together on questions about autonomous driving under the guidance of experts. They cooperate online and meet several times in Hungary and Bavaria during the course of the project, where they can get to know and try out autonomous driving in practice. Law students are still being sought for the project.

For the RatSWD (Council for Social and Economic Data), the Forschungsstelle has developed a handout on "Dealing with knowledge of criminal offences in the context of conducting research projects", which was published today.

On 24.01.2023 Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess will give a lecture on "Digital Transformation of Companies: Backgrounds, Insights and Perspectives" in Hörsaal I from 2 - 4 pm.

Prof. Hilgendorf will give a speech on 11.01.2023 at 6 p.m. c.t. as part of the SOCAI Talk! with the topic "Science Fiction, Technology and Law".

From September 14-16, Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf will participate as a moderator at this year's "We Robot" in Seattle. He will moderate the talks "Regulating the Risks of AI" by Margot Kaminski (Colorado Law) and "Safety Paradoxes: Reimagining 'Safety' as a Regulatory Objective for Robotics and AI-System Legislation" by Kirsten Thomasen (University of British Columbia, Allard Law). 

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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of everyday life and has the potential to fundamentally change many aspects of society. Especially in the recent past, AI has developed rapidly and has achieved impressive successes. One example is its superhuman competence in games or many quiz shows. Google and other search engines as we know them today would be unthinkable without the use of AI. Furthermore, it enables personalized advertising, can recognize, output, and translate language at a very high level, performs impressively in image recognition, and much more.

Prof. Hilgendorf will participate in the lecture series "Automated Systems" at Leibniz Universität Hannover on May 24, 2022 at 5 p.m. and give a lecture entitled "Infinite Space - Science Fiction, Technology Design and Law".

The Bavarian AI Council, together with the Würzburg Research Center RobotRecht, the Würzburg Center for the Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence (SOCAI), the Würzburg Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS) and the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), is organising a workshop on the new EU regulation on artificial intelligence on April 1st and 2nd at the "Alte Universität" in Würzburg and cordially invites all interested persons.

The Federal Government has set itself the goal of taking a pioneering role in questions of automated, in particular autonomous, driving. This is particularly evident in the context of the last two amendments to the StVG. For this very reason, it is important on the one hand to intensify research in this area and at the same time to create more trust in algorithms.