Roberta Savella

Biography

Roberta Savella is a PhD Student at the Italian National PhD on AI for Society. She graduated in law at University of Pisa, completed her legal traineeship at a law firm in Lucca, and has worked for two years as a research fellow at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISTI). Her research topics are the legal and ethical aspects of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data analysis. She is particularly interested in the interplay between regulation and innovation in the European Union and how the new digital laws can foster responsible research to create ethical technologies and protect fundamental rights.

Workshop contributions

Regulation vs Innovation? Unpacking the dichotomy to foster responsible research

The regulatory landscape in the European Union has seen two different trends in the past few years: after a wave of regulations which left us with the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Governance Act, the Data Act (just to name a few) and other landmark pieces of legislation, the new direction is going towards simplification, following the narrative that “regulation stifles innovation”. This talk will challenge this assumption and discuss responsible research practices to foster ethical innovation in the field of new technologies.