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The 34th AI&Society Meeting 
  • Host
    JST RISTEX Trans-disciplinary Research Project
    on Co-designing Social Systems
    (Law, Economics and Management) and AI/Robot Technologies

     
  • Partners
  • Time&Date
    13:00~18:00,  12.5.2018
     
  • Place
     
    • EGG JAPAN Business Development Office, Tokyo 21c Club​​
      • 〒100-6510
        Shin-Marunouchi Bldg. 10F, 1-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo
        (One minute's walk from the Marunouchi North Exit of JR Tokyo Station)
      • http://www.egg-japan.com/en/access
      • Attention: Every entrance of the Shin-Marunouchi Bldg is closed on Saturday.
        Please come B1 floor, after-hours entrance. This entrance is in front of StarBacks coffee shop. Staffs will be waiting in front of this entrance.

         
  • Purpose
     A concern that AI and Robots bring “hard case” to modern law system is widely known, and there are much discussions about how to govern relations between natural persons and AI/Robots. About this time,  We invite Ugo Pagallo who is a author of  a novel book “The Law of Robots” which is examined Law of AI/Robots to referred to broad notions from Roman law, current US law system,  continental law systems and philosophical argument, and be given a presentation how should law systems govern relations between AI/Robots and natural persons.
     
  • Time Table
     
 13:30 open 
 
1)13:40-15:40 Special Lecture by Ugo Pagallo
 
Break Time
 
2)16:00-17:30 Panel Discussion  
 
  • Special Lecture  by Prof. Ugo Pagallo 
     
    • Theme:The Hard Cases of AI & Robotics, and their Legal Governance
       
    • Summary:
      Much of the 2013 book on The Laws of Robots has to do with prospective trends in the field of robotics. Five years later, we could dare to affirm the book has aged well. Most of its forecasting on the hard legal cases of robotics, from new forms of agency and accountability for artificial agents to innovative schemes of intelligent car sharing through self-driving cars, have stood the test of time. Should the conclusion be that nothing new has appeared under the sun of legal robotics over the last 60 months? Here, we should mention a possible misunderstanding and the role of the secondary rules of the law. On the one hand, in today's debate on the legal status of some smart robots and AI systems, scholars and policy makers alike often confuse the legal agenthood of these artificial agents with the status of legal personhood: This is a mistake that we should resist. On the other hand, as it is said in the preface of the Japanese edition of The Laws of Robots, should the author rewrite his book from scratch, he would now follow Japanese thinking and put more emphasis on the role of the “secondary rules” of the law. Forms of legal experimentalism, procedural regularity, and also federal competition among legal systems, can help us understand what kind of primary rules we may wish for our AI robots.
       
    • Profile:
      A former lawyer and current professor of Jurisprudence at the Department of Law, University of Turin (Italy), Ugo Pagallo is Faculty Fellow at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, U.K. and NEXA Fellow at the Center for Internet & Society at the Politecnico of Turin. Author of eleven monographs and numerous essays in scholarly journals and book chapters, he has been member of many EU projects and researches, among which the RPAS Steering Group on drones, the Group of Experts for the Onlife Initiative set up by the European Commission, and Expert for the evaluation of proposals in the Horizon 2020 robotics program. He is currently working with the European Institute for Science, Media, and Democracy (Atomium), in order to set up AI4People, the first global forum in Europe on the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence. His main interests are Artificial Intelligence & law, network and legal theory, and information technology law (specially data protection law and copyright).​
       
  • Panel Discussion​​
    • Theme:Progress of AI and Robot Technology and Branch Point of Legal System
       
    • Member: Ugo Pagallo, Fumio Shimpo, Ryota Akasaka, Takayuki Matsu, Ikuko Kudo
       
    • Moderator: Fumio Shimpo
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