Research Group Public Law and Computer Science

Sarah Cen, Stanford University (CS and Law School), is going to give an invited talk on "Adapting for AI: Complexities of AI Accountability“ on March 28th, 3 pm in the InformatiKOM. 

She will dive deep into a few topics in AI safety and policy, discuss AI supply chains and explore how they complicate machine learning objectives. The discussion will then shift to AI audits and evidentiary burdens in cases involving AI. Using Pareto frontiers as a tool for assessing performance-fairness tradeoffs, the talk will show how a closed-form expression for performance-fairness Pareto frontiers can help plaintiffs (or auditors) overcome evidentiary burdens or a lack of access in AI contexts.

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Frederike Zufall co-authored (with Johnny Wei and Robin Jia from USC) paper on operationalizing content moderation "accuracy" in the Digital Services Act appeared at the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) in San José. Identifying a contradiction in its literal understanding, the interdisciplinary work relates the underspecified term to the affected fundamental rights - operationalizing it as a trade-off between precision and recall - and proposes a stratified sampling approach to meet the reporting requirements of the DSA.

Gustavo Gil Gasiola publishes a book entitled "Datenübermittlung in der öffentlichen Verwaltung"(in English: Data Transfer in Public Administration). This book examines the lawfulness of data transfer in public administration according to the criteria of lawfulness, purpose limitation and transparency.

Co-authored paper by Frederike Zufall (with Lin Kyi, Sushil Ammanaghatta Shivakumar, Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Franziska Roesner and Asia J. Biega) wins the Council of Europe’s Stefano Rodotà Data Protection Award 2024

Paul Friedl and Gustavo Gil Gasiola (Public Law and Computer Science) publish a blog post examining the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act on Verfassungblog.de