Guest Lectures by Professor Rostam J. Neuwirth (University of Macau, China)
We are pleased to invite you to insightful hybrid format lecture by Professor Rostam J. Neuwirth from University of Macau, China.
🎯 Topic: The EU’s AI Act’s Prohibition of AI Systems Deploying Subliminal Techniques:
A Critical Appraisal
📅 Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025
⏰ Time: 16:30–17:30 (CEST)
💻 Format: Hybrid format
📍 Location: Sala Rady Wydziału (Faculty Council Hall) 2055
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About the Lecture:
The EU’s AI Act’s Prohibition of AI Systems Deploying Subliminal Techniques:
A Critical Appraisal
Recent and rapidly evolving advances in the field of AI and neurotechnologies now seem to allow AI systems to deploy subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques, with the objective alter a person’s behavior. Such AI systems, in combination with other technologies, pose serious and possibly unprecedented dangers to the freedom of thought, cognitive liberty and possibly free will.
In response to growing ethical concerns about potential dangers posed by AI, the European Union (EU) has recently adopted the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Already in 2021, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized AI as an issue of global regulatory concern and highlighted the serious dangers posed to the human mind, when it adopted the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
Against the backdrop of the serious regulatory challenges posed by AI, neurotechnologies and other related technologies, the paper will critically discuss and appraise the various regulatory, interdisciplinary and institutional issues raised by the prohibition of subliminal AI systems enshrined in Art. 5 (1) lit. a) EU AI Act.
About the Lecturer:
Rostam J. Neuwirth is Distinguished Professor of Law and Head for Department of Global Legal Studies at the University of Macau. Previously, he taught at the West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in Kolkata and the Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU) in Raipur (India) and worked as a legal adviser in the Department of European Law of the International Law Bureau of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He received his PhD degree from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy) and also holds a master’s degree in law (LLM) from the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal (Canada). As an undergraduate he studied at the University of Graz (Austria) and the Université d’Auvergne (France). He authored the book ‘The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Regulating Subliminal AI Systems’ (Routledge 2023) and ‘Law in the Time of Oxymora: A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law’ (Routledge 2018) as well as numerous other publications that focus on contemporary global legal problems.