The Summer School offers a comprehensive knowledge of the main scientific features of AI (starting from a definition, describing the main characteristics, and recent developments and novelties), and the ethical emerging questions and their impact on human rights in today's landscape. Participants will engage with key ethical principles and values surrounding AI, like meaningful human control, trustworthiness, explainability, transparency, non discrimination, privacy, surveillance, autonomy and accountability, sustainability, and examine how these principle/values should guide our actions in all the AI life-cycle from design through development/deployment to applications in concrete cases. The aim is to outline how technologies may threaten human dignity, or may be used to protect human dignity, in the human-centric perspective.
Over the week, participants will delve into the philosophical and legal frameworks governing AI and human rights in the international context, exploring the re...