Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence: how to allocate liability between the stakeholders?

School of Law, University of Geneva

Session 186

16:30–18:15, Monday, 8 April 2019 Room L2, ITU Montbrillant Thematic Workshop

Artificial Intelligence may be used by companies to enhance their security, as well as by attackers to better breach security. Today, white hat hackers are also skilled professionals with serious jobs and human resources teams. The number of players (manufacturers, operators, programmer, trainer, end-users) makes it consequently difficult to allocate liability. The discussion will thus focus on the following challenges: how to identify all players, how to allocate the liability between them (in the light of current legal frameworks such as the GDPR and the product liability laws), what are the insurances options and finally, what are the regulatory challenges?

Moderator

Dr. Yaniv Benhamou, PhD, Attorney-at-law, Lecturer (IP & Privacy), University of Geneva

Speakers/Panellists

Mrs. Katarzyna Gorgol, Adviser Digital Affairs and Telecommunication, Delegation of the European Union and other International organizations in Geneva
Dr. Asaf Lubin, Lecturer at Yale University and Cybersecurity Postdoctoral Policy Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
Mr. Steven Meyer, CEO and co-Founder of ZENData, Cybersecurity services, ZENData Geneva
Dr. Olivier Crochat, Executive Director, Centre for Digital Trust (C4DT), EPFL
Mrs. Limor Shmerling Magazanik, Managing Director , Israel Tech Policy Institute
Prof. Stephane Marchand Maillet, Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva
Mrs. Līga Raita Rozentāle, Director of Governmental Affairs for Cybersecurity Policy, Microsoft
Mrs. Stephanie Borg Psaila, Interim Director of DiploFoundation and the Geneva Internet Platform
Mrs. Ria Kechagia, Legal Counsel, Scientific Collaborator, Department of Commercial Law, UNIGE/ C4DT, EPFL

Session's link to WSIS Action Lines

C1. The role of public governance authorities and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
C2. Information and communication infrastructure
C4. Capacity building
C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
C6. Enabling environment
C9. Media
C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
C11. International and regional cooperation