Laboratory of Human Rights and Their Protection Bodies of the University of Rzeszów and the Rzeszów University of Technology (Poland) together with the IBEROJUR – Instituto Iberoamericano de Estudos Jurídicos seated in Porto (Portugal) invites you to take part in the II International scientific Conference “Artificial Intelligence and Responsibility: Technological and Legal Aspects of AI in the CITY” (2th CONFIAR). The Conference will be held in person and remotely on 13 December at URBAN LAB of the City of Rzeszów, in Poland.
The conference will address the extremely important and recently topical issue of liability for the actions of artificial intelligence (AI). This issue, although increasingly often raised in individual presentations by speakers at international conferences, is almost never the main subject of conference deliberations, or at most one of the many threads taken up. As a result, this prevents a comprehensive, wide-ranging discussion of the multitude of complications that may arise in this connection. The intention is to juxtapose the achievements of legal and technical sciences, to discuss the problems identified in an interdisciplinary manner, as the organisers believe the issue requires.
Recognizing the aforementioned gap, it was decided to organize this scientific endeavor. Additional inspiration came from legislative efforts to regulate the mentioned issue within the framework of European Union legislation. We are referring in particular about the EU Intelligence Artificial Act, aproved in 2024. The AI Act is a European regulation on artificial intelligence (AI) – the first comprehensive regulation on AI by a major regulator anywhere.
The main goal of this conference is to enable a broad, cross-state debate on the future regulation of AI in terms of its liability. The observations and conclusions made, especially those included within the framework of the post-conference monograph, will be able to inspire possible amendments to the planned directive, thus helping it to take its optimal shape.
For this reason, the organizers have planned the aforementioned conference as an international event, allowing speeches in English, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. IBEROJUR – Instituto Iberoamericano de Estudos Jurídicos, based in Porto (Portugal) – has been successfully recruited as a co-organizer for the said project.
The subject matter of the conference is extremely topical, and the publication containing the papers delivered within the framework of the conference will undoubtedly have a pioneering character and will be a kind of signpost for further findings of both domestic and European doctrine and, most likely, legislation. The resulting monograph of the conference will be published. Articles in English will be published in a Journal with a Polish ISSN.