Nele Roekens will be our ghest in this DRAILS workshop for a presentation on Human protection and AI : Will the EU AI Act and the CoE Convention on AI provide adequate human rights protection and what is the role of National Human Rights Structures in their creation and enforcement? The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
♦ Attendance is free but registration online is required to receive the invitation.
About the intervention
During this session Nele Roekens will highlight challenges posed by AI on human rights and explore some solutions to these, with a focus on non-discrimination. Existing legislative frameworks are insufficient to meet specific AI-related challenges. This is widely recognized and legislators – including the European Commission and Council of Europe – are at an advanced stage of negotiating new legal frameworks. She will comment on these legislative initiatives from a human rights perspective and highlight on the potential role of National Human rights Structures (NHRSs) within their creation, implementation and enforcement
About Nele Roekens
Nele Roekens is legal advisor at
Unia, equality body and National Human Rights Institution (B status). She specializes in equality law and human rights challenges posed by emerging technologies. She is co-chair of the Working Group on AI of the
European Network of National Human Rights Institutions and represents this network at the Council of Europe during the ongoing negotiations on the framework Convention on AI and Human Rights. She is member of
AI4Belgium’s Ethics and Law Working Group.
