Online Research Seminar Series: AI and Law

The aim of the seminar series is to continue the discourse on the legal and regulatory implications of AI and related technologies in the European and the global legal, economic and social space. It brings together scholars and practitioners with a distinct multidisciplinary orientation covering the technology, its politics, policy-making and regulation, the law, and the relevant values. The series aims to foster a critical understanding of technological changes and a critical analysis of ongoing and future policy, regulatory and legal developments.

AI and Fundamental Rights: Public Perceptions, General Awareness and Selected Fundamental Rights Issues

Speaker: Tamás Molnár, Programme Officer, Research and Data Unit, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (Vienna)

Time: Thursday, 25 March 2021, 10:00 CET (90 min.)

Find more information about this event here: https://file.tk.mta.hu/index.php/s/DmyCFPm2GrccoGq

Registration: https://forms.gle/8cfvDPb34yywCkHk7

The seminar will be broadcasted via Zoom application. Participation is subject to prior registration. The Zoom link of the event will be sent to registered participants via email.

Ákos Máté, Miklós Sebők and Tamás Barczikay recently published an article entitled 'The effect of central bank communication on sovereign bond yields: The case of Hungary' 

The open-access article is available here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245515

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We successfully held the online kickoff conference of the CSS Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory with more than 120 participants. In addition to the presentation of the subprojects taking place in the Centre, the audience was able to get acquainted with the projects running in the institutions participating in the MILAB consortia. The event was divided into three sessions, with a total of 10 presentations. Without being exhaustive, the audience was able to get answer many exciting questions, e.g. the possibilities of different professional applications of natural language processing, or how to model mass spatial motion from mobile communication date and identify groups with similar spatial behavior patterns based on them, or the challenges of the legal environment of artificial intelligence.

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