Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law

Part I Scientific, technological and societal achievements in Artificial Intelligence.- Introduction to Part I.- 1. Artificial intelligence: historical context and state of the art.- 2. The impact of language technologies in the legal domain.- 3. Societal implications of recommendation systems: a technical perspective.- 4. Data-driven approaches in healthcare: challenges and emerging trends.- 5. Security and privacy.- Part II. Ethical and legal challenges in Artificial Intelligence.- Introduction to Part II.- 1. Before and beyond Artificial Intelligence: opportunities and challenges.- 2. Autonomous and intelligent robots: social, legal and ethical issues.- 3. The ethical and legal challenges of recommender systems driven by Artificial Intelligence.- 4. Metacognition, accountability and legal personhood of AI.- 5. Artificial Intelligence and decision-making in health: risks and opportunities.- 6.The autonomous AI physician: medical ethics and legal liability.- 7. Ethical challenges of Artificial Intelligence in medicine and the triple semantic dimensions of algorithmic opacity with its repercussions to patient consent and medical liability.- Part III. The law, governance and regulation of Artificial Intelligence.- Introduction to Part III.- 1. Dismantling four myths in AI & EU Law through legal information 'about' reality.-  2. AI modelling of counterfactual thinking for judicial reasoning and governance of law.- 3. Judicial decision-making in the age of Artificial Intelligence.- 4. Liability for AI driven systems.- 5. Risks associated with the use of natural language generation: a Swiss civil liability law perspective.- 6. AI Instruments for risk of recidivism prediction and the possibility of criminal adjudication deprived of personal moral recognition standards - sparse notes from a layman.- 7. The relevance of

Henrique Sousa Antunes is Associate Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculty of Law (Lisbon School), Portugal. He was Dean of the School between 2011 and 2013. His area of expertise is private law and he teaches law of obligations, remedies, property law and European consumer law. He belongs to several international research groups and he is a member of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law, where he coordinates a working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence. Sousa Antunes has published monographs and articles on a wide range of topics, namely on torts, contracts, property law, law and artificial intelligence, collective redress, consumer law and foundations law.

Pedro Miguel Freitas is a Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculty of Law, where he coordinates a Postgraduate Course in Law and Technology, as well as a course in Law and Technology in the Law Degree. He obtained his PhD (2016)from the Law School of the University of Minho. He lectures and researches in the area of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Law and Technology. He is a member of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of the Law, Algoritmi Center, the Latin American Observatory for Criminal Policy Research and Law Reform, the International Federation for Information Processing (WG 9.6 and WG 11.7) and the Secure Platform for Accredited Cybercrime Experts at EUROPOL.


Arlindo Oliveira obtained a BSc in EECS from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a researcher at CERN, the Electronics Research Laboratory of UC Berkeley, and the Berkeley Cadence Laboratories. He is a distinguished professor of IST, president of INESC, member of the board of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and a researcher at INESC-ID. He authored several books and articles in the areas of algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, and computer architecture. He