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This open access book builds on the success of the Second Conference of the Research Project on "Digital Vulnerability in European Private Law", which was held on 16th and 17th May 2024 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, focusing on the theme Human Vulnerability in Interaction with AI . Bringing together more than twenty legal scholars and scientists from various fields, including philosophy, sociology, medicine, computer science, the book explores a vast array of topics and applications illustrating the challenges presented by Human Machine Interaction (HMI), and particularly by Artificial Intelligence (AI), to the fluid and multilayered nature of the human condition. In the post European Union AI Act legal landscape, the primary aim of this collection is to test and possibly to boost the distinctiveness of the European position in this regard. Relying on the multidisciplinary composition of the team, the book offers in-depth discussions on important subjects, including, but not limited to: legal subjectivity and individual identity, inclusion/exclusion dynamics arising out of our increasingly digitalized world, scenarios of human-machine hybridization, the descriptive and prescriptive potential of the notion of digital vulnerability to capture individuals and groups varying conditions of fragility as well as new avenues of protection for human/fundamental rights in the digitalized world. The volume helps transformatively reconsider the EU approach to AI risk management and is of enduring value to legal scholars, legal practitioners, and everyone interested in grounding AI in a human-centered and trustworthy legal framework.
About the author
Amalia Diurni, PhD (Regensburg), Full professor of Private Comparative and Uniform Law at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Management and Law, School of Economics. Visiting and research professor in Paris Panthéon-Assas, Regensburg, Fribourg, Vienna, IECL of Oxford. Director of PhD Program "Teoria dei contratti, dei servizi e dei mercati" (Rome Tor Vergata). Editorial board’s member of Rivista di diritto privato and Giurisprudenza italiana. Awarded with DAAD’s and Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung’s research fellowships. Her research deals with comparative law methodology applied to issues in contract and family law, financial collaterals, torts and medical law, digital law. She is member (head of the Rome unit) of the DiVe “Digital Vulnerability in the European Private Law” Project.
Claudia Amodio, Ph.D. (Florence), is Associate Professor of Comparative law at the Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences of the University of Ferrara. Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD Programme in "Environmental Sustainability and Wellbeing" (University of Ferrara), Senior Associate Editor of "The Italian Law Journal", she has published in Italian, English, French, and Spanish on Comparative law theory and method, French law, European private law, constitutional comparative law. She is member of the DiVe “Digital Vulnerability in the European Private Law” Project.
Summary
This open access book builds on the success of the Second Conference of the Research Project on "Digital Vulnerability in European Private Law", which was held on 16th and 17th May 2024 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, focusing on the theme “Human Vulnerability in Interaction with AI”. Bringing together more than twenty legal scholars and scientists from various fields, including philosophy, sociology, medicine, computer science, the book explores a vast array of topics and applications illustrating the challenges presented by Human Machine Interaction (HMI), and particularly by Artificial Intelligence (AI), to the fluid and multilayered nature of the human condition. In the post European Union AI Act legal landscape, the primary aim of this collection is to test and possibly to boost the distinctiveness of the European position in this regard. Relying on the multidisciplinary composition of the team, the book offers in-depth discussions on important subjects, including, but not limited to: legal subjectivity and individual identity, inclusion/exclusion dynamics arising out of our increasingly digitalized world, scenarios of human-machine hybridization, the descriptive and prescriptive potential of the notion of digital vulnerability to capture individuals’ and groups’ varying conditions of fragility as well as new avenues of protection for human/fundamental rights in the digitalized world. The volume helps transformatively reconsider the EU approach to AI risk management and is of enduring value to legal scholars, legal practitioners, and everyone interested in grounding AI in a human-centered and trustworthy legal framework.
