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Main Authors: Rotolo, Antonino, Ferrigno, Beatrice, Godinez, Jose Miguel Angel Garcia, Novelli, Claudio, Sartor, Giovanni
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18290
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author Rotolo, Antonino
Ferrigno, Beatrice
Godinez, Jose Miguel Angel Garcia
Novelli, Claudio
Sartor, Giovanni
author_facet Rotolo, Antonino
Ferrigno, Beatrice
Godinez, Jose Miguel Angel Garcia
Novelli, Claudio
Sartor, Giovanni
contents This chapter introduces a conceptual framework for qualitative risk assessment of AI, particularly in the context of the EU AI Act. The framework addresses the complexities of legal compliance and fundamental rights protection by itegrating definitional balancing and defeasible reasoning. Definitional balancing employs proportionality analysis to resolve conflicts between competing rights, while defeasible reasoning accommodates the dynamic nature of legal decision-making. Our approach stresses the need for an analysis of AI deployment scenarios and for identifying potential legal violations and multi-layered impacts on fundamental rights. On the basis of this analysis, we provide philosophical foundations for a logical account of AI risk analysis. In particular, we consider the basic building blocks for conceptually grasping the interaction between AI deployment scenarios and fundamental rights, incorporating in defeasible reasoning definitional balancing and arguments about the contextual promotion or demotion of rights. This layered approach allows for more operative models of assessment of both high-risk AI systems and General Purpose AI (GPAI) systems, emphasizing the broader applicability of the latter. Future work aims to develop a formal model and effective algorithms to enhance AI risk assessment, bridging theoretical insights with practical applications to support responsible AI governance.
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spellingShingle Foundations for Risk Assessment of AI in Protecting Fundamental Rights
Rotolo, Antonino
Ferrigno, Beatrice
Godinez, Jose Miguel Angel Garcia
Novelli, Claudio
Sartor, Giovanni
Artificial Intelligence
This chapter introduces a conceptual framework for qualitative risk assessment of AI, particularly in the context of the EU AI Act. The framework addresses the complexities of legal compliance and fundamental rights protection by itegrating definitional balancing and defeasible reasoning. Definitional balancing employs proportionality analysis to resolve conflicts between competing rights, while defeasible reasoning accommodates the dynamic nature of legal decision-making. Our approach stresses the need for an analysis of AI deployment scenarios and for identifying potential legal violations and multi-layered impacts on fundamental rights. On the basis of this analysis, we provide philosophical foundations for a logical account of AI risk analysis. In particular, we consider the basic building blocks for conceptually grasping the interaction between AI deployment scenarios and fundamental rights, incorporating in defeasible reasoning definitional balancing and arguments about the contextual promotion or demotion of rights. This layered approach allows for more operative models of assessment of both high-risk AI systems and General Purpose AI (GPAI) systems, emphasizing the broader applicability of the latter. Future work aims to develop a formal model and effective algorithms to enhance AI risk assessment, bridging theoretical insights with practical applications to support responsible AI governance.
title Foundations for Risk Assessment of AI in Protecting Fundamental Rights
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18290