Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Legal Challenges for the 21st Century
This project aimed at aggregating the research of several JusGov members, from different areas of expertise (Civil Law, Labour Law, Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Public and Private International Law, European Union Law, etc.), in order to identify for each of them the challenges and problems that AI and Robotics raise or may raise in the near future. Given the fact that the development of AI has reached levels that predict the need for intervention by the legislator in the short/medium term, the aim was to discuss and structure, in the end, proposals for legislation or interpretative solutions that allow for the solution of the problems identified in each area.
It is therefore an interdisciplinary project, bringing together several areas of Law, Computer Science, Bioethics, etc. In an initial phase, each researcher proceeded to identify the problems at stake, discussing the results of this preliminary research in one of four Webinars/Conferences structured around common areas: Health Law and Bioethics; Judicial Law; International/Transnational Law; Private Law. A fifth Conference open to Young Researchers was also held.
With the contributions of these discussions, a second phase was opened, to propose solutions to the problems identified, which were presented at an International Congress, which also allowed for the exchange of ideas and knowledge/solution proposals with foreign colleagues.
In a third phase, the research results were made available to the public, through the publication of a collective book.
Duration: January 2021 to December 2022.
PI: Sónia Moreira
Co-PI: Pedro Miguel Freitas
Team: Ana Flávia Messa, Ana Isabel Guerra, Anabela Gonçalves, Assunção Pereira, Diana Coutinho, Francisco Andrade, João Nuno Barros, Joana Covelo Abreu, Isa António, Marco Gonçalves, Maria Miguel Carvalho, Miriam Rocha, Patrícia Borges, Pedro Dias Venâncio, Rossana Martingo Cruz.
Participation of young researchers: António Cruz Oliveira, Diogo Morgado Rebelo, Sávio Bittencourt, Sofia Alcaide, Rui Zilhão.