BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:GMT Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT ORGANIZER;CN=Daniele Quercia:mailto:[email protected] ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=smartdater [email protected]:mailto:[email protected] ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=members@sm artdata.polito.it:mailto:[email protected] ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=MINDS:mail to:[email protected] ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=HCI:mailto :[email protected] ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=nexa@serve r-nexa.polito.it:mailto:[email protected] DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:International Law as AI Design Code: Building AI Systems on Foundations of Global Consensus\nEsther Jaromitski\n\n\nJoin T eams<https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33598810138348?p=fPMKeGgq6p871svOYD> \n\nFormat: 35 min talk + 25 min Q&A\n\nInternational law represents human ity's most ambitious attempt at codifying shared values across borders—y et it remains almost entirely absent from AI system design. This talk argu es that treaties and customary international law should serve not merely a s external constraints on deployed AI\, but as foundational design princip les from the earliest stages of development. Drawing on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a case study\, I examine how AI-powered toys and children's technologies could be fundamentally reimagined if develope rs treated international human rights frameworks as design specifications rather than compliance afterthoughts. What if Article 3's "best interests of the child" principle became a core consideration in product requirement documents\, or Article 12's right to be heard inspired child consultation processes before feature lock? The approach is not imposing public intern ational law obligations on companies—it's about recognising that these t reaties represent decades of global deliberation on human flourishing\, an d that this hard-won consensus is a resource the AI industry is leaving la rgely untapped. For companies trying to design technology that works for t he world\, this body of law offers a starting point: the work of defining shared human values has already been done. The Convention on the Rights of a Child\, as an example\, offers not only substantive protections but als o a methodological blueprint to AI development: meaningful stakeholder par ticipation\, including children themselves\, before design decisions are l ocked in. These two worlds—international law and AI development—curre ntly operate in near-total isolation. Bridging them offers a path toward A I systems built on foundations of codified global consensus rather than th e implicit values of their creators. This talk explores the first steps to ward bringing international law closer to technologists—so they can star t using it comfortably in their early-stage thinking.\n\nEsther Jaromitski is a published novelist\, legal scholar\, and senior adviser specialising in international law\, AI governance\, and trust-and-safety enforcement f or emerging technologies. Her work focuses on how platforms\, AI-driven sy stems\, and critical digital infrastructure can facilitate international c rime\, and on embedding accountability into global technology systems. She holds degrees from Leiden University College and Queen Mary University of London\, where she recently completed her PhD on international criminal l iability for social media platforms and algorithmic systems. Her research was funded by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation. Previously\, Esther served a s a legal adviser to the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York a nd conducted research for the United Nations International Law Commission\ , the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime\, amongst others. She has t aught Internet Regulation in the Technology Law Master's at the Queen Mary University of London. Currently\, Esther is a Senior Adviser at the UK Go vernment's Department for Science\, Innovation and Technology\; none of he r external work represents the views of the UK Government\, as Esther spea ks in a personal capacity. Esther is an editor at the Oxford Journal of T echnology and Law and the Queen Mary Law Journal. Her work has been publis hed in the Oxford Human Rights Hub\, the UNODC Library\, and other outlets .\n\nSubscribe to future talk announcements: Anyone outside Bell Labs can receive talk announcements by subscribing to the mailing list. To subscrib e\, send an empty email with the subject line "Subscribe RAI” to daniele [email protected]\n\n\n\n\n\n UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000DBD5261DFB9FDC01000000000000000 010000000D9CC18B8A1BE5A48B35DDA4F1AB75036 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-US:[Responsible AI] International Law as AI Design Code \, Esther Jaromitski DTSTART;TZID=GMT Standard Time:20260223T153000 DTEND;TZID=GMT Standard Time:20260223T163000 CLASS:PUBLIC PRIORITY:5 DTSTAMP:20260217T105134Z TRANSP:OPAQUE STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:2124581595 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:TENTATIVE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0 X-MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE X-MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE:DEFAULT X-MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED:TRUE BEGIN:VALARM DESCRIPTION:REMINDER TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT15M ACTION:DISPLAY END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
