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The Council of Europe Adopts the First-Ever International Treaty on Artificial Intelligence

by Giacomo Lusardi and Alessandra Faranda The Council of Europe adopted the first legally binding international framework convention aimed at ensuring respect for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the public and private sectors. The Convention will be open for signature from 5 September […]

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Il primo trattato internazionale sull’intelligenza artificiale: cosa prevede la convenzione quadro del Consiglio d’Europa

di Giacomo Lusardi e Alessandra Faranda Il Consiglio d’Europa ha adottato a Strasburgo la prima convenzione quadro internazionale giuridicamente vincolante volta a garantire il rispetto dei diritti umani, della democrazia e dello Stato di diritto nell’utilizzo dei sistemi di intelligenza artificiale nel settore pubblico e privato. Aperta alla firma dal prossimo 5 settembre, anche ai

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Assicurare l’imprevedibile: le polizze per il rischio IA

di Giacomo Lusardi e Karin Tayel L’intelligenza artificiale è intorno a noi ed è qui per restare L’intelligenza artificiale (IA) sta rapidamente permeando vari settori economici. Dai servizi finanziari e assicurativi al life science, passando per ambiti diversi come la vendita al dettaglio, l’industriale, l’immobiliare, il media e lo sport, l’IA sta rimodellando i paradigmi

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The Italian bill on Artificial Intelligence: The main issues

By Giacomo Lusardi and Alessandra Faranda Last April 23, the Italian Council of Ministers passed a bill (AI Bill) aimed at introducing some national Artificial Intelligence (AI) provisions. The main scope is to establish regulatory criteria for balancing the opportunities offered by new technologies with the risks associated with improper and harmful use, supplementing and

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Il disegno di legge italiano sull’intelligenza artificiale: i temi principali

di Giacomo Lusardi e Alessandra Faranda Lo scorso 23 aprile il Consiglio dei Ministri ha varato un disegno di legge (DDL) volto a introdurre disposizioni nazionali in materia di Intelligenza Artificiale (IA), anche tramite delega al Governo. L’obiettivo primario è di stabilire criteri normativi in grado di bilanciare le opportunità offerte dalle nuove tecnologie con

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Insuring the unpredictable: The challenges of AI risk insurability

By Giacomo Lusardi, Karin Tayel and Andrea Olivieri AI is all around us and it’s here to stay AI is rapidly permeating various economic sectors. From financial services and insurance to life sciences and encompassing industries as diverse as retail, industrials, real estate, media and sports. AI is reshaping traditional paradigms and marking a shift

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Italy’s AI Strategy for 2024-2026: The Key Points

by Giacomo Lusardi and Alessandra Faranda The government’s vision of AI: a strategy and a bill In the past few days, an executive summary prepared by AgiD (Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale) and the Department for Digital Transformation was made available on the web. It summarizes the vision and architecture of Italy’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the

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How Insurance Companies are Embracing Machine Learning according to IVASS survey

The Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority (“IVASS”) recently published the results of a survey conducted in 2022 on the use of Machine Learning (“ML”) algorithms by insurance companies in their relationship with insureds. The survey involved 93 companies and is part of a broader IVASS strategy aimed at analyzing the evolution and impact of Insurtech.

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Navigating the Open Insurance landscape: A legal perspective for 2023

OPEN INSURANCE: A DEFINITION Open Insurance is a way for insurance companies and other players in the insurance sector to share personal and non-personal data, usually via standardized and interoperable APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) (EIOPA, 2021). They can then use that data to create new products and services and improve existing ones. Open Insurance data

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Italy adopts new rules on digital platforms and abuse of economic dependence

The recent annual Italian law for the market and competition 2021 (Law No. 118/2022 – “2021 annual competition law”) has – among other things – supplemented Article 9 of Law 192/1998 with new provisions concerning the abuse of economic dependence by digital platforms. Among the novelties are a rebuttable presumption of economic dependence for digital

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The logistics services contract is now expressly regulated in the Italian Civil Code: the new Section 1677-bis

by Giacomo Lusardi and Nicoletta Iurilli The Italian rules on service contracts (appalto) have recently been supplemented with Section 1677-bis of the Italian Civil Code, introduced by Section 1, paragraph 819, Law No. 234 of December 30, 2021, and then replaced by Section 37-bis, Decree Law No. 36 of April 30, 2022, converted with amendments

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New Regulation on machinery products and the digital transition: Obligations for manufacturers, distributors, and importers

by Giacomo Lusardi and Arianna Angilletta On April 21, 2021, along with the proposal for a Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and as part of the broader “Artificial Intelligence Package,” the European Commission issued the proposal for a Regulation on machinery products that will replace the Machinery Directive (Directive 2006/42/EC) currently in force. In our

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Liability in the digital and AI age: EU looks beyond the ‘AI act’

Following its April 2021 proposal for a European Artificial Intelligence Regulation, the Commission comes back to the topic of liability for damages in the digital age with a consultation open to the public until January 10, 2022. The purpose of the consultation Having launched the first part of the public consultation on October 18, 2021,

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Il TAR Lombardia non ha sospeso l’E-commerce

by Giacomo Lusardi and Alessandro Ferrari In queste ore si legge su varie testate online, più o meno autorevoli, che il TAR della Lombardia avrebbe “bocciato” l’ordinanza della medesima regione dello scorso 11 aprile 2020, per aver esteso l’e-commerce anche ai beni che non rientrano tra quelli essenziali o strategici di cui all’Allegato 1 del

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Outsourcing agreements and Artificial Intelligence: Hints and Tips Part 2

In one of our latest blog posts, we went through the first part of our hints and tips on outsourcing agreements and artificial intelligence, covering #1 Technological evolution and benchmarking clauses, #2 Liability and limitations, and #3 Know-how transfer, insourcing and supplier replacement.

Below is the second part on: #4 Intellectual Property,  #5 Data protection and #6 Cyber risk and Insurance.

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