Session 4- Regulating and governing AI and Robotic agents

16:00 AM to 17:30 PM
Studio 4

This session will focus on the urgent and complex challenge of establishing robust frameworks for the regulation and governance of AI and robotic agents. As these systems increasingly influence decisions in various domains, the question of how to ensure accountability, safety, and democratic oversight becomes critical. Speakers will examine existing regulatory efforts, identify gaps, and propose forward-looking approaches. The session will also consider global dynamics: how to coordinate regulation across jurisdictions, prevent regulatory arbitrage, and balance innovation with societal protection. Ultimately, it will ask not only how to govern these agents, but also what values and visions of society such governance should reflect and uphold.

Meet the speakers

  • Gregory Lewkowicz

    MODERATOR

    FARI Academic Director - Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

    Former representative of the National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS), Gregory Lewkowicz is a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, a member of the Perelman Centre, and the director of the SMART Law Hub within the Faculty of Law and Criminology. He teaches the course “Smart Law: Algorithms, Metrics & Artificial Intelligence” at Sciences Po Law School in Paris. Additionally, he lectures at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University and the University of Liège. He is a Koyré Senior Research Fellow in Economic Law and Artificial Intelligence as part of the 3IA Chair at Université Côte d’Azur. He is also a recurring professor in the executive education programs on digital transformation and law at HEC-Paris.

    His research pragmatically examines the interactions between law and digital technologies (SMART Law), global and transnational law, as well as the contemporary transformations of law and legal professions. He leads several research programs on algorithmic law and the application of artificial intelligence techniques to the development, analysis, implementation, and enforcement of legal or related norms. He is also involved in multiple research and development projects with public and private partners. Gregory Lewkowicz frequently advises public authorities and companies on digital strategy and regulation.

    Gregory Lewkowicz oversees the “Penser le droit” collection at Bruylant Publishing. He serves on the board of directors of the European Academy of Legal Theory and the Brussels Academic Higher Education Pole. He is a member of the advisory board of AI4Belgium and the European Committee on AI (AI Board). He established the Brussels Bar Observatory and chaired the European Incubator of the Brussels Bar from 2017 to 2022.

  • Roger Brownsword

    SPEAKER

    Barrister, Professor of Law at Kings College London, Honorary Professor in Law, University of Sheffield

    Professor Roger Brownsword, who is a graduate of the LSE, has been an academic lawyer for some 50 years, first at the University of Sheffield and then at King’s College London (where he was founding Director of TELOS in 2007). He was a Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2003-2004, a member of the Law panel for the UK RAE2008 and then for the Hong Kong RAE2014.

    He has published about 20 books, most recently Law, Technology and Society―Re-imagining the Regulatory Environment, and more than 250 chapters in books and articles. He is the founding general editor of Law, Innovation and Technology as well as being on the editorial board of the Modern Law Review, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.

    From 2011-2015, he chaired UK Biobank’s Ethics and Governance Council; and he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2004-2010). He has been a member of working parties in the Academy of Medical Sciences (on ‘drugs futures’) and the Royal Society (on neuroscience and the law, and on machine learning); and he has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees on stems cells and hybrid embryos. 

  • Ronald Leenes

    SPEAKER

    Professor in Regulation by Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University)

    Prof.dr. Ronald Leenes is full professor in Regulation by Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University). I was TILT's director from Sept 2015 – Feb 2022.

    He focuses on many aspects of the legal and technological landscape, and has worked and published on many aspects of cyberspace regulation. In particular, he is interested in techno-regulation, conceptual issues with respect to privacy, data protection in practice, data analytics, robotics, AI and human enhancement. His current work focuses on control (aka techno-regulation, accountability and transparency) in autonomous vehicles and on regulatory failure in technology regulation.