Regulation and AI Autonomy
When: Monday, March 23, 2026, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: Lecture Theatre, Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB
This seminar presented the interim findings from the Cloud Legal research project on agentic AI autonomy. It investigated two questions:
- How far do existing regulatory systems assign responsibility for the autonomous acts of AI? and
- What options are available for assigning responsibility in future regulation?
The project uses the EU AI Act as its backbone, as the most developed model for general AI regulation. It then investigates three powerful regulatory systems: financial services, data protection and content control. The seminar will attempt to draw conclusions about how far regulation currently answers the responsibility question, which approaches to regulating responsibility for AI autonomy work well, and where they can most appropriately be used in other regulatory fields.
Research team: Professor Chris Reed, Alex Austria, Anmol Bharuka, Pragnitha Mandava, Khushiya Mujawar, Luka Shakhkulashvili
Wine and a reception followed the seminar.
