SUMMER SCHOOL IN "THE REGULATION OF ROBOTICS & AI IN EUROPE: LEGAL, ETHICAL AND ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS"

The Course will provide participants with an advanced understanding of the European framework of robotics and AI technologies. Advanced robotics and AI represent a novel kinds of applications that need to be fitted within a pre-existing framework of legal standards, and socio-ethical beliefs and principles. In particular, they need to comply with existing regulation, be respectful of – and promote – existing rights as recognized by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR), abide a responsible research and innovation approach and take into account existing – social – needs and desires.

It is therefore essential, both for engineers designing such applications and for lawyers and philosophers seeking to acquire relevant professional skills, to be able to counsel roboticists and robotic enterprises, and to acquire an exact understanding of all the different profiles and of interdisciplinary interactions.

The Summer School aims at providing international students, policy makers, and professionals from different backgrounds with the knowledge and interdisciplinary skills necessary to understand the different issues posed by the development and diffusion of robotics in EU, namely to: design robots/counsel enterprises, ensuring compliance with applicable regulation, technical-ethical standards, social acceptability and respect of the CFR, develop risk-management strategies and entrepreneurship models, as well as define new EU policies on these matters.