Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Business and Human Rights

Event Details

This roundtable will examine the intersection between AI regulation and business and human rights. We will discuss how emerging AI governance frameworks are reshaping corporate responsibility and human rights and environmental due diligence. We will focus on growing regulatory fragmentation and normative tensions across jurisdictions, including the interaction between the EU AI Act, the CSDDD, the Digital Services Act (DSA), sector-specific regulation, and broader international business and human rights standards. 

We will also explore AI's dual role within business and human rights frameworks. AI systems create complex and often opaque risks relating to explainability, discrimination, employee monitoring, data governance, intellectual property, accountability, and access to remedy. Yet, AI technologies are also being deployed by companies as tools to support compliance, governance, and HREDD processes, including risk identification, monitoring, and supply-chain mapping.

The roundtable will address:

1. Regulatory overlap, divergence, and conflict-of-laws challenges across AI and business and human rights regimes;
2. The operationalisation of risk-based AI governance frameworks, including impact assessments, explainability, and accountability mechanisms;
3. Litigation, enforcement, contractual allocation of risk, and liability for AI-related harms; and
4. The use of AI within corporate governance and HREDD processes, including employment, supply chains, and compliance systems.

Chair

Dr Irene Pietropaoli, Senior Research Fellow in Business & Human Rights and Director of the Business and Human Rights Forum

Speakers:

• Harry Borovick, Luminance
• Jessica Clay, Kingsley Napley
• Jack Eastwood, Cooley LLP
  
• Roch Glowacki, Lewis Silkin
• Rowena Rodrigues, Trilateral Research
  
• Jacob Turner, Fountain Court Chambers

 Agenda

Registration

This event is open to members of the Business and Human Rights Forum and invited guests. Please contact Dr Irene Pietropaoli to request a place at this event.

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