TIME: 3:30 PM

LOCATION: GMCS 314

SPEAKER: Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin, Italy

ABSTRACT: The AI ​​Act is the first comprehensive law regulating artificial intelligence systems and models across the board. It is a complex legal text, comprising 180 recitals, over 68 definitions, 113 articles, and 13 annexes, which is expected to enter into force on August 2 of this year. The conference aims to illustrate the legislation’s fundamental principles, as well as its weaknesses. Significantly, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation, the “Digital Omnibus,” on November 11, 2025, which risks weakening some crucial aspects of the law.

BIO: A former lawyer and current professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Turin (Italy), Ugo is Faculty Fellow at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, U.K., and Vice-President of the Italian Association of Legal Informatics. Author of thirteen monographs, a hundred essays in scholarly journals and book chapters, he has been a member of many EU projects and research, among which the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on liability and new technologies formation, set up by the European Commission in 2018. He is currently working with the World Health Organization in the AI4H(ealth) project. 

HOST: Jose Castillo