PhotoVogue Festival 2023: The Talks
This conversation took place on November 17th 2023 as part of the PhotoVogue Festival 2023 which centered around the theme “What Makes us Human?: Image in the Age of A.I.”
After the success of the General Data Protection Regulation (the ‘Privacy Regulation’ or GDPR), the EU has endeavoured to play the role of global leader in the field of digital regulation. Ambitiously, the European Commission is at it again with the proposed AI Act and with a number of initiatives aimed at making sure companies, public bodies, and individuals adopt AI in an ethical manner. In this talk, during his talk “Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Law: Can EU regulations protect humanity?”, Professor Noto La Diega will present and critically analyse these recent instruments and question whether they can be effective in protecting humans and their humanity in a world where generative AI increasingly threatens our core values.
An award-winning law academic with a passion for emerging technologies, Professor Guido Noto La Diega holds the first Chair of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Stirling, where they coordinate the IP and Media Law courses, direct the Just AI Lab; serve as Deputy Chair of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee; and carry out research at the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance
Privacy (CRISP). Professor Noto La Diega’s work is animated by the conviction that the law should steer the development of technologies in a socially just, human-centric, inclusive, and sustainable direction. Combining socio-legal methods and doctrinal private law approaches honed thanks to a PhD (Unipa), a postdoc (QMUL), and an HEA Fellowship, Professor Noto La Diega has developed an expertise in IoT, machine learning, cloud computing, robotics, and blockchain. Their focus tends to be on the intellectual property, consumer protection, data governance, and human rights issues in these technologies. Professor Noto La Diega is the author of the groundbreaking book Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Technologies (Routledge 2022). Building on some ideas developed in the book, they have been awarded a half-a-million grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation for the project “From Smart Technologies to Smart Consumer Laws. Comparative Perspectives from Germany and the UK” (2022-2025). Outwith Stirling, Professor Noto La Diega is Martin-Flynn Global Law Professor at the University of Connecticut; member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on AI and Data in Education
and Training; External Expert at the European Data Protection Board; Fellow of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society; Research Associate at UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies; as well as serving on the Steering Committee of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the leading IP organisation in Europe.
“How the Content Authenticity Initiative Combats Digital Mis/Disinformation” is part of day 1 “Charting New Territories: The Ethical Implications of A.I. in Image Creation” of the Symposium taking place at BASE Milano on Friday 17th November.
The event is free and everyone is welcome to attend.
The recording of this panel will be uploaded after the Festival.
Friday 17th November - Day 1 “Charting New Territories: The Ethical Implications of A.I. in Image Creation” will also feature:
- “Text to Image Prompt: The technology and science behind A.I. and what it could mean for image makers?” by Mel McVeigh
- "A.I., Photography, and our Futures” by Fred Ritchin
- “How the Content Authenticity Initiative Combats Digital Mis/Disinformation” by Santiago Lyon
- “Multimedia forensics when digital photography meets artificial intelligence” by Paolo Bestagini
- "Navigating Truth in the Age of A.I.: Fact-Checking and Media Literacy" by Daniele Moretti
- "Real Tone Imagining A.I. for Communities of Color" by Florian Koenigsberger
- “Addressing Ethical Dilemmas: Image in the age of A.I.”, Group Discussion
PhotoVogue Festival is a project directed by Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue) and co-curated by Francesca Marani (Senior Photo Editor, Vogue Italia), Chiara Bardelli Nonino (Editor, Writer and Curator), Daniel Rodríguez Gordillo (Content Operations Strategy Manager, Condé Nast) and Caterina De Biasio (Visual Editor, PhotoVogue)
