Legal framework for the use of AI in local government

 

Even if it may take a few more years before artificial intelligence is used as standard in local government, sooner or later cities and municipalities will not be able to do without it. The shortage of skilled labour alone, and thus the municipal personnel and financial situation, will ensure that municipalities (must) decide to rely on AI. What's more, the tasks to be performed by local authorities are numerous anyway - and will become even more so in the foreseeable future.

 

At the same time, administrative law and administrative procedural law assume in principle that decisions are made by people who are in a public-law employment relationship and are bound by law and order. The seminar takes a look at this tense relationship and discusses the legal framework conditions that need to be observed when using AI at a municipal level. It will also look at more recent legal regulations such as the European Union's AI Regulation.