María Fernández Escudero: Code is law or law is code? Governance and Artificial Intelligence

What we called science fiction a few years ago, nowadays is called Artificial Intelligence (AI). Despite its laboratory origin, AI is currently on the streets, but scientists and lawyers sometimes are in pursuit of different matters. However, finding ‘the’ meeting point is urgent and mandatory. This talk reinterprets AI from the eyes of a social scientist, trying to create a common framework in which computational scientists can focus on the ‘How’, and sociologists, politicians, or legal experts must address the 4 Ws of AI to orderly incorporate it in our society : Why, What, Where, and When. The expected proposals should help us to answer the title question: should AI drive regulatory changes or, on the contrary, should law guide AI evolution?