TK MILAB AI and Law Online Research Seminar Series' next event covers the following topic: AI systems in different shapes and sizes play an increasing role in our lives – from mobile phones and computers over robot vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers to surgical robots and large industrial installations. Algorithms assist attorneys-at-law in drafting contracts, and they can even create newspaper articles. Which unavoidably leads us to the question, who is going to foot the bill if something goes wrong? In the past couple of years, EU institutions have been working towards comprehensive regulation of these questions on EU level. Several policy papers and a draft regulation have been issued since then.

How law regulates Artificial Intelligence (AI)? How do we ensure AI applications comply with existing legal rules and principles? Is new regulation needed and if yes, what type of regulation? These questions have gained increasing importance as AI deployment has increased across various sectors in our societies. Adopting new technological solutions has raised legislators' concern for the protection of fundamental rights both nationally in Finland and at the EU level. However, finding these answers is not easy. And the answers we find may be frustrating: varying from typical "it depends" to the self-evident "it's complicated", followed by the slightly more optimistic "we don't know yet".