When AI technologies have sufficient autonomy to direct their own actions, does this create a ‘responsibility gap’?

We will examine three areas of law which deal with this issue – liability for agents, vicarious liability for employees and those in similar relationships, and liability for animals. Similar fundamental principles underlie all three, suggesting ways to make the user responsible for the AI’s actions outside exceptional cases.

When AI technologies have sufficient autonomy to direct their own actions, does this create a ‘responsibility gap’?

Delve into exclusive content from the webinar and gain insights on how to tackle this fascinating topic with Legal expert Chris Reed.

Governments are concerned that encryption technologies provide criminals and terrorists with a capability to evade investigation. This webinar examines some of the policy and legal options available to governments and law enforcement agencies to try to address this concern. While accepting the claim that this phenomenon represents a real challenge to law enforcement agencies, we currently have insufficient evidence to show the true extent of the problem and it does not means that the use of encryption represents a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power between suspects and their investigators from what previously prevailed.

You are invited to join an insightful, online discussion hosted by Julia Hornle and Queen Mary University.

This workshop will examine content moderation on social media platforms and how this can be automated. It will discuss the impacts on freedom of expression of automated content moderation and guidelines.

Produced by Postgraduate Law and Tech Students and based out of Queen Mary University of London, this podcast keeps you ahead of the game when it comes to Tech, Media and Intellectual Property Law..

You are invited to join an insightful, online workshop hosted by Subject Matter Expert, Laura Edgar and Queen Mary University.

Laura Edgar, who is also the Course Director of the prestigious LLM in Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law, will be sharing her expertise on the legal challenges of generative Artificial Intelligence and the arising issues that impact Intellectual Property and Data Protection. Also, learn more about other key topics that are covered in the LLM programme.

The report, conducted by Queen Mary University, examines strategies for reducing gambling-related harm through proactive measures in online gambling services. The research explores preventive solutions that can be implemented by key stakeholders, including open banking API developers, financial institutions, lending organisations, gambling operators, and their associated technology providers.

Report prepared by Professor Julia Hörnle, Dr Janelle Jones, Rita Kenkwanzi and Elizabeth Quinn.
Queen Mary University of London

Dave Michels is a legal expert on the Microsoft-funded Cloud Legal Project. He shares his latest findings on “European Cloud Sovereignty”. He also cover questions like: What is cloud sovereignty? Why does it matter to you? And how does it relate to the extra-territorial law enforcement and surveillance powers of the United States government?