PORTALE DELLA DIDATTICA

PORTALE DELLA DIDATTICA

PORTALE DELLA DIDATTICA

Elenco notifiche



Digital Societies & Law

01HXGUQ

A.A. 2023/24

Course Language

Inglese

Degree programme(s)

Doctorate Research in Ingegneria Gestionale E Della Produzione - Torino

Course structure
Teaching Hours
Lezioni 20
Lecturers
Teacher Status SSD h.Les h.Ex h.Lab h.Tut Years teaching
Mantelero Alessandro Professore Associato GIUR-01/A 20 0 0 0 1
Co-lectures
Espandi

Context
SSD CFU Activities Area context
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This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to embed EU law in the traditional technology-oriented context of engineering doctoral courses, with a focus on digital technologies and AI. By adopting a perspective focused on the interplay between societal needs – including those related to ethical issues in research – and law, the course outlines methodologies for incorporating them into technological artefacts for a human-centred AI. The structure of the course is divided into three main parts: (i) digital societies and EU law; (ii) thematic topics (Data protection, ethics and use of data in research; Regulations for future data-driven digital societies and AI); (iii) project work on AI and human rights impact assessment.
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Part I (8 hours, 1st week) The first part of this course presents the key elements of digital societies, using a case study analysis of the main experiences in Europe, highlighting common and different elements. This will also facilitate the understanding of the dialogue between EU and national regulations on digital societies and highlight the role of harmonisation played by EU law. Part II (6 hours, 2nd week) The second part deals with two thematic topics: (i) Data protection, ethics and use of data in research; (ii) Regulations for future data-driven digital societies and AI. Students will benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach which will include the participation of invited speakers. In this part, students will also discuss few assigned papers related to the topics mentioned above (the list of the papers will be provided at the beginning of the course). Part III (6 hours, 3rd week) The last part of the course consists in a project work and focuses on the role of legal and non-legal values in technology design. Having in mind the needs to contextualise the EU legal framework within the socio-technical environment, students will be asked to address some specific case studies and apply in problem solving the methodology of risk assessment (HRESIA) described in the course. This methodology, based on the H2020 project Values and ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in Europe carried out by Politecnico and further developed in the book Mantelero, A. Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI (Springer, 2022, OPEN ACCESS), consists in a new framework to pro-actively position legal, ethical, and social self-assessments in the development process of digital technologies. Based on assigned case studies and using the HRESIA tool, students will analyse and assess the potential societal impact of AI applications, considering different design options in the light of minimising potential adverse impacts and boosting the beneficiary use of innovative AI applications. The analysis of these case studies will be carried out using various research-based techniques, such as peer-feedback, presentations, writing and discussion of short papers. Special attention will be given to case studies related to the Mediterranean area.
Mixed mode
Team project work development
P.D.2-2 - April
4 April 2024 from 16:00 to 19:00 - classroom 1T 5 April 2024 from 16:00 to 19:00 - classroom 1T 11 April 2024 from 8:30 to 11:30 - classroom 1T 12 April 2024 from 08:30 to 11:30 - classroom 1T 22 April 2024 from 08:30 to 11:30 - classroom 1T 24 April 2024 from 08:30 to 11:30 - classroom 1T 29 April 2024 from 08:30 to 11:30 - classroom 1T