Economics and Finance

General objectives. The course aims to provide students with the basic concepts of artificial intelligence as a phenomenon that requires solid and careful legal regulation. During the lessons, the explanation of the phenomenon will be accompanied by the exposure of the relevant legislation, subject to constant updating by the national and supranational legislative body, to acquire a general vision and a concrete approach to the matter. In the first phase of the course, the phenomenon of AI will be analyzed: notions of a technical nature will be offered aimed at a better understanding of the concept and the identification of related concepts, such as neural networks, machine learning and deep learning. Having said this, we will investigate the main fields of application of A.I., with respect to which the advantages and risks deriving from the use of A.I. systems will be highlighted. In the second part of the course, however, you will have the opportunity to deepen the national and European legislation on the subject by covering, specifically, the legislative evolution of the A.I. and highlighting the role of ethics in its formation, necessary in order to better protect the balance between the economic interests of a market in the wake of technological development, on the one hand, and the protection of fundamental human rights, on the one hand other. In particular, the evolution of standardization tools will be observed, moving from soft law (as a more flexible tool and therefore adequate to the dynamism of the phenomenon) up to the adoption of hard law tools. Specific goals. More specifically, the course aims to provide the student with: A) knowledge of the main notions relating to the phenomenon of AI, in order to acquire a general and clear view of the same; B) knowledge of the main applications of A.I. in the various sectors of the economy and their legal, as well as economic and social relevance; C) the critical ability to recognize the structural vulnerabilities of the phenomenon and the consequent importance in the consolidation of an adequate regulatory apparatus; D) in-depth knowledge of the current legislation on the subject and the possibility of periodically monitoring its updates; E) the ability to understand the ratio of the regulation of I.A.