Legal4Tech - The podcast

In this special episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we unpack the new EU approach to protecting minors online and regulating the services they use everyday.

Tune in for a clear, critical tour of the newly proposed EU Kids Act.

Shownotes:

1. EU Kids Act Proposal

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In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we sit down with Fernanda Flores and Gustavo Llorenz from the American Arbitration Association/ICDR to explore how modern arbitration and alternative dispute resolution shape the way rules work in practice.

Join us as we go back to the origins of rules and discover how AAA-ICDR supports parties across borders through fair, efficient dispute resolution.

Shownotes:

1. 2025 AAA Technology Infographics
2. Additional AAA Infographics
3. ClauseBuilder AI
4. Original Version of ClauseBuilder AI
5. 2026 AAA-ICDR Technology Conference, November 3 New York City: A Century of Resolution: Cracking the Code of Technology Disputes

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In this season 3 opener of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we talk with Dr. Alba Ribera Martínez to unpack the European Commission's decision to designate ChatGPT as a VLOSE (Very Large Online Search Engine) under the Digital Services Act.

Listen to understand Europe's evolving approach to AI and digital platform power.

Shownotes:

1. The Binary Agora, Dr. Alba Ribera Martinez
2. ChatGPT Designation as VLOSE (EC Press Release)
3. Digital Services Act Text

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In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, Rosie sits down with Ley Muller, AI governance advisor and founder of "Values Driven AI", to unpack how European AI standards try to protect vulnerable groups while still enabling innovation.

We dive into topics such as:

• Why AI standardization in Europe is so political and why it matters for fairness and vulnerability.
• How algorithms are reshaping hiring, HR and social media and what this means for young job seekers.
• What "algorithmic rights" under the AI Act and GDPR could offer in practice and where their limits are.

Join us for a candid, critical look at the gap between AI standards on paper and the realities people face in their everyday lives.

Shownotes:

1. Why fairness cannot be automated: Bridging the gap between EU non-discrimination law and AI
2. Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland (ECtHR, Grand Chamber)

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In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, Rosie sits down with GEMA legal counsel Armelle Grandjean to unpack the Suno AI ruling and its link to the earlier OpenAI case.

Together, they explore:

• How AI models train on music and where copyright infringement begins.
• The Munich court's findings on memorisation, fair use and international jurisdiction under US and German law.
• What these decisions mean for licensing, fair remuneration and the future of creators in the age of AI.

Tune in for a front-row look at how Europe is trying to balance innovation, cultural diversity and artists' rights in the AI era.

Shownotes:

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In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we partner again with the GIEF and we talk with Kareem Mathias and Bennett Iorio to unpack the commentary "The Collapsing Credential: The AI Era Demands a New Model for Education".

We explore topics such as:

• Why traditional degrees and credentials are "collapsing" in an AI-saturated world.
• Artifact-based education and assessing real-world skills beyond CVs and diplomas.
• How AI is reshaping the job market, university experience and pathways for the next generation.
• Why the erosion of trusted credentials threatens fairness, opportunity and democratic stability.

Join us for a deep dive into education, AI governance and the future of merit in our societies.

Shownotes:

1. The Collapsing Credential: The AI Era Demands a New Model for Education, Kareem Mathias

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In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, Rosie sits down with Dr. Mark Leiser to unpack his working paper "The Innovation Mandate: Making Europe's Digital Supervisory State Accountable for Rights, Growth and Scale".

We explore topics such as:

• Why data protection authorities should explain their decisions and adopt supervisory impact statements.
• How legal certainty and regulatory transparency can foster innovation while preserving a hard rights floor.
• The risks of "innovation washing" by Big Tech, AI chatbots and LLMs in the EU's drive for innovation.

Join us for a forward-looking conversation on rights, growth and scale in Europe's digital supervisory state.

Shownotes:

1. The Innovation Mandate: Making Europe's Digital Supervisory State Accountable for Rights, Growth and Scale
2. Innovation Mandate Lecture YT
3. Dr. Mark Leiser's LinkedIn post on Non-Personal Data is not one thing

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In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast we partner again with the GIEF and talk with Professor Sam Illingworth to explore why human skills like judgement, empathy and critical reasoning must remain at the core of AI-powered societies.

Together, we discuss:

• How students are really using AI in education, beyond stereotypes about cheating and shortcuts.
• Why automating decisions in courts, schools and welfare systems threatens democratic judgement and accountability.
• How law and politics shape social media bans, guardrails and even AI-written legislation.

Join us for a grounded conversation on reclaiming human skills as "core skills" in the age of AI and what this means for law, policy and education.

Shownotes:

1. Reclaiming Human Skills as Core Skills in the Age of AI, Prof. Sam Illingworth & Bennett Iorio

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In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, Rosalia travels far beyond Earth with Maia Sacchetto and Davide Iannace to unpack Europe's emerging approach to space and resilience governance.

We explore topics such as:

• The launch of the GIEF European Resilience program and its mission for democratic stability.
• How space governance fits alongside defense, cloud and data governance in the EU policy agenda.

• The role of rigorous research and policy evaluation in shaping future European institutions.

Join us for a journey into the geopolitics of space and the future of European governance.

Shownotes:

1. Orbit Without Order: The Costs of Fragmented Space Governance

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In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we talk with Monika Namysłowska and Kasper Drazewski to unpack what digital fairness really means for European consumers today. They explore how endless scrolling, opaque data practices and thousands of micro-harms expose the limits of traditional consent-based protection and why ex-ante rules and unfair commercial practices law need to step up.

Tune in to understand what's at stake if we get digital fairness wrong!

Shownotes:

1. Symposium on AI-induced psychosis (end of October): more information will be disclosed soon
2. The Social Dilemma - Netflix documentary

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