THEMATIC PILLARS OF GSAIET 2025
- AI & Fundamental Rights
This pillar focused on ensuring that artificial intelligence systems operated transparently, fairly, and in a manner that preserved fundamental human rights such as dignity, equality, and privacy. Discussions explored mechanisms for conducting bias audits to detect and mitigate discriminatory outputs, advanced algorithmic explainability to foster public trust, strengthened data protection laws, and upheld the principle of human-in-the-loop to maintain human oversight in automated decision-making processes.
- AI, Accountability & Liability
This theme addressed the complex question of how legal systems should assign responsibility when AI systems caused harm or unintended consequences. It examined both regulatory and tort-based approaches to algorithmic decision-making, explored frameworks for effective risk management, and developed systemic liability allocation models that aimed to ensure accountability without stifling innovation.
- Cybersecurity & Autonomous Defence
As AI increasingly powered cyber operations and blurred the boundaries between digital and kinetic warfare, this pillar investigated the legal and ethical challenges arising from AI-enabled cyber conflicts, autonomous weapon systems, and drone warfare.
- Law for Quantum & Decentralized Technologies
This pillar explored how legal systems could proactively anticipate and regulate disruptive quantum and decentralized technologies. Topics included the recognition and enforcement of smart contracts, governance implications of zero-knowledge proofs, formulation of quantum-secure encryption standards, and the preparation of regulatory frameworks for the rise of post-quantum cryptography to protect critical digital infrastructure.
- Digital Trade, Competition & Intellectual Property
This theme analyzed the changing dynamics of the global digital economy, focusing on cross-border data flows, digital trade regulations, and challenges posed by digital monopolies. It examined how intellectual property doctrines could adapt to AI-generated works, addressed competition law concerns in AI-driven markets, and aimed to ensure equitable access, innovation, and fair market practices in the digital era.
- RegTech & LegalTech Innovation
This pillar showcased how AI-powered technologies were transforming the legal and regulatory sectors. It highlighted innovations such as AI-enabled compliance and risk management tools, smart contract adjudication platforms, and digital dispute resolution mechanisms all aimed at enhancing legal efficiency, transparency, and access to justice for individuals, businesses, and governments.