Digital Law DOI: 10.38023/8af1d00d-a216-4422-aa8d-6983e439db87

Artificial Intelligence and Design: The Case of “Request to Intervene” in “Industry 4.0”

Federico Costantini

Lorenzo Genna

Giuseppe Parisi

Region:

Switzerland

Field of law:

AI & Law

Collection:

Conference proceedings IRIS 2022

Citation: Federico Costantini / Lorenzo Genna / Giuseppe Parisi, Artificial Intelligence and Design: The Case of “Request to Intervene” in “Industry 4.0”, in: Jusletter IT 24. Februar 2022

In the past 25 years, legal thought has considerably evolved. Traditional narratives have been supplemented by other visions, which are driven by technological innovation. In those latter perspectives, social regulation is the result of a complex process in which information technology embodies a crucial factor, as well as does legislation. In this contribution we address, according to such a perspective, the problem of the “request to intervene” in the so-called “Industry 4.0”. Firstly, we provide a theoretical model, centred on the concept of technological design, overarching the current relationship between law and technology, individual and society, moral values, and quality standards. Secondly, we examine how design, according to such a model, can shape the interaction between humans and machines, bringing new means of social control, especially in critical conditions. Furthermore, we discuss the problems emerging in industrial production, where most of the current “disruptive technologies” are deployed.

Table of contents

1. Introduction
- 1.1. 100 years of legal thought, 25 years of IRIS: between history and historicism
- 1.2. Technological design and human-machine interaction: the problem of “request to intervene”
2. The central role of technological design
3. Technological design and the problem of the “request to intervene”
4. Industry 4.0, Machine Vision and Artificial Intelligence
5. Conclusions

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