Individual safeguards in the era of AI: fair algorithms, fair regulation, fair procedures
First JCME JUST-AI Summer Colloquium
On 24 and 25 June 2025, we held the its first summer colloquium: Individual safeguards in the era of AI: fair algorithms, fair regulation, fair procedures in Brussels.
During this event, we discussed whether and how programmers should integrate ‘fairness constraints’ in the programming (training, validation) of AI systems, whether and how regulators should design regulatory frameworks that are conducive to accurate and fair (as well as accurate because fair) AI systems, which adjudicatory procedures should be made available to the victims when harm occurs due to an ‘error’ (typically, a bias), which substantive and procedural rights claimants and defendants should be able to exercise, and whether and how courts should adjudicate AI-related disputes in order to arrive at fair outcomes.
Though these and other similar issues can be addressed from a variety of analytical viewpoints, the speakers at the first JUST-AI Summer Colloquium were invited to analyze them from the vantage point of the individual, the aim of the Colloquium being to foster a pluri-/interdisciplinary discussion on the types, means and effectiveness of the safeguards that can and ought to be afforded, to individuals, in the various sectors where AI technologies become prominent and the risk of harm they might cause, more imminent.
The JUST-AI Summer Colloquium brought together researchers in various stages of career advancement (doc, post-doc, Assist. and Assoc. Prof) active in IT, the social sciences (sociology, political science, law and economy) and the humanities (philosophy, history, linguistics).
We are happy to report that we have had excellent feedback to our call for abstracts, which made the selection process quite difficult. As showcased in the program below, we ultimately managed to select the most interesting submissions, authored by scholars from various fields and in various stages of their career advancement.We are thrilled to say that this first conference was a resounding success, to say the least!
Around 20 participants joined us to discuss fairness and artificial intelligence. They were astonishingly great. Congratulations to all of them: Audrey Vermeulen (Aix-Marseille Université), Ignacio Gonzalez Garcia (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Salvador Duart (BDCTEC Intl. Sl.), Lisa Klautzer (TEZO Analytics), Swaptik Chowdhury (RAND Graduate School), Fabien Lechevalier (Paris-Saclay, Stanford TTLF Fellow), Marie Potel-Saville (Amurabi & Fairpatterns), Anastasia Karagianni (Vrije Universiteir Brussels), Debabrota Basu (INRIA Center at University of Lille), Soorya Balendra (McGill University), Chau Bao Kham (Cornell Tech / Harvard Berkman Klein), George He (Harvard Law School), Ana Maria Corrêa (KU Leuven), Sara Garsia (KU Leuven), Isabella Alberti (University of Turin), Victoria Hendrickx (KU Leuven), Yulu (Niki) Pi (University of Warwick / University of Cambridge), Merlin Tieleman Liège Université), Mirko Faccioli (University of Verona) and Eduard Fosch Villaronga (Leiden University).
Many thanks to the discussants Ljupcho Grozdanovski (FNRS / Liège Université), Pierre Delvenne (Liège Université), Julien Bois (Liège Université) Francesca Episcopo (UVA), Jérôme De Cooman (Liège Université), Quentin Bebronne (Liège Université), Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel (Liège Université), Melanie Fink (Leiden University) and Francesca Palmiotto (Hertie School).
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