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Welcome to the AI Seminar Series from NorwAI – Norwegian research center for AI Innovation, & NAIL – Norwegian Open AI Lab!

Join in on a Popular Science talk from Senior Research Fellow Karin Väyrynen, Senior Lecturer Arto Lanamäki, and Post-doctoral researcher Fanny Vainionpää, INTERACT research group, University of Oulu, Finland.

Please note that the seminar is on a Wednesday. 

Abstract

Although the European AI Act was adopted in 2024, after three years of negotiations, it is still “regulation in-the-making”. Much uncertainty and open questions remain about how to interpret the AI Act and what it means in practice for those organizations that need to comply with it. In the Research Council of Finland -funded AI-REG project more than 200 interviews have been conducted with regulators, public sector organizations, and experts. The project has followed the developments of the AI Act as well as public sector organizations’ preparations for AI Act compliance since 2022. This presentation will share both theoretical and practical insights on what it means that law is vague at its penumbra, multi-interpretable and temporally unstable.

Project website: https://interact.oulu.fi/ai-reg

About the speakers

Karin Väyrynen is a Senior Research Fellow in Information Systems in the INTERACT research group at the University of Oulu, Finland. She is the principal investigator of the Research Council of Finland funded AI-REG project, investigating the European Artificial Intelligence Act. Her recent research focuses on studying the impact of public policy and laws on the development and use of technology, the role of regulatory ambiguity, industry-level digital transformation, and the reciprocal relationship between law and technological development. Her research has been published in journals such as the Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Business Horizons, Electronic Markets, and JMIR Medical Informatics, as well as various information systems conferences.

Arto Lanamäki is a University Lecturer in Information Systems at the University of Oulu. He is currently part of the AI-REG project, focusing on the European Union’s Act on Artificial Intelligence. His work has been featured in several conferences and journals, including the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, among others.

Fanny Vainionpää is a Postdoctoral researcher in the INTERACT research group at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has conducted research on phenomena where technology meets society with qualitative methods and systemic perspectives. She currently works in the AI-REG project with focus on public sector artificial intelligence development and use under the EU AI Act. Already published works tackle, for instance, challenges and critiques of the AI Act and anticipation practices under regulation-in-the-making. Fanny’s work has been published in journals such as the European Journal of Information Systems, Information Technology & People, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Digital Society, and Internet Research.

Details

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Time: Wednesday, 20 May, 13:00-14:00

Place:IT Building West, 3. floor, Room 354, AI-Lab, Gløshaugen

Competence level: Popular science

Online participation: Follow this link for online participation

The seminar series is mainly aimed for in person participation, but you are welcome to join the Teams stream. Note that we will not allow use of transcription or recording tools, either through Microsoft Teams or external tools (e.g. Fireflies), as we have not asked permission to record or transcribe this seminar.

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