Oreste Pollicino

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Oreste Pollicino is Full Professor of Constitutional Law in Bocconi. He also teaches the courses on GDPR, Media Law, Internet Law and he is the Director of the LLM in Law of Internet Technologies in Bocconi University. He is Honest Broker appointed by the European Commission for the negotiation on the ‘European Code of Practice on Disinformation’; Member of the Executive Board, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna; Board Member of the Digital Library, Ministry of Culture; Member of the European Commission Sounding Board of the Multistakeholder in the fight against online disinformation; Participant to the Conseil of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI); Italian member of the OECD Global Partneship on Artificial Intelligence.

His research is focused on Constitutional Law and cross-cut the issues of the digital age, looking at the delicate relationship between public and private actors and how this impacts with the exercise and the protection of fundamental rights. His research has centred on European and Comparative Constitutional Law; Digital Constitutional Law; Media Law; Internet Law, Life Science Law; Law and Cinema.

Innovation and Digital Transition

Policy Brief - The European Approach to Disinformation: Policy Perspectives
2024

The paper explores the evolution of the EU's policy on disinformation, evaluates its current strategies, and discusses future perspectives, emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability in the digital age.

Generative AI and the rediscovery of the legitimate interest clause
2023

The proliferation of advanced generative AI models has unequivocally highlighted what was already foreseeable since the advent of the algorithmic era. The traditional notion of "consent" is no longer a viable proposition in the context of an algorithmic society. Given the increasing sophistication of emerging AI generative models, which legal basis could be a reasonable alternative?

Generative AI - A concise primer for non-experts
2023

A concise introduction into the workings of large language models is presented. We start with an introduction to the attention mechanism, the core of the transformer architecture, which is then followed by a discussion of the steps needed to engineer the base model, a generatively pretrained transfromers (GPT), to a working chatbot like ChatGPT.

The Future of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act
2023

In the absence of crystal-clear considerations to be drawn on the legal domain, it is advisable to refrain from celebrating the AI Act (as well as its alleged substantial failure) as a turning point or a historical achievement. Let the final legal provisions speak, first.

Open Discussions

Certification of Business Practices and Algorithms as a Complementary Approach to Platform Regulation
05/06/2024 - 05/06/2024
Alesina Seminar Room (5-e4-sr04), Roentgen building, Floor 5

Digital platforms have transformed markets and created considerable value, mostly for their owners.  We discuss the types of harm inflicted on consumers, suppliers, competitors, and society at large, and analyze the recent regulation of digital platforms in the US and the EU, pointing to its limitations.