ESR5 - Maksymilian Kuźmicz

Maksymilian Kuźmicz
Research project
AI-driven video-based Active Assisted Living technologies and balancing of interests
About the project

This project aimed to propose a method of balancing and identify appropriate legal tools of balancing in the context of AI-driven video-based AAL technologies. While numerous studies assert that AAL technologies keep improving their ability to assist individuals in need, this optimistic prospect must be juxtaposed to several concerns. These concerns are often conflicts of interests, i.e., situations in which pursuing one interest may hinder another. Conflicts of interest can be approached in many ways, out of which one is balancing. That presents an issue of balancing as a conflict management tool in the AAL context. In the legal context, the problem is more specific: what is balancing, and how could it be used to prevent or solve conflict?
Consequently, the main subject of this project was structuring balancing as a legal method of conflict management in the AAL context. The investigation focused on European law, and AAL deployed at private homes. 

Start date: May 2021

End date: May 2025

Progress of the project

The research began by identifying stakeholders and their primary interests. Next, the work proposed to merge risk identification method with dogmatic analysis of law to provide a method of potential conflicts identification. Subsequently, the research presents two main approaches to balancing recognised in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, and the Court of Justice of the European Union: proportionality and compromising. Each method was analysed and presented in a structured way, tailored to the AAL context. Building on these findings, a catalogue of legal tools for balancing was constructed. Finally, the project examined the possibility of an integrated model of balancing, proposed how it could be constructed, and evaluated its potential role as risk and quality management systems required by the AI Act. 


This project made contributions to the field of legal sciences by examining the concept of balance, methods of balancing, and generating a catalogue of balancing tools. Moreover, it advanced the research on AAL technologies by proposing a novel stakeholders’ classification that merges analytical categorisations with those grounded in legal frameworks, and identifying balancing tools applicable in the AAL context. Furthermore, it proposed possible models of risk and quality management systems under the AI Act.
 

Scientific publications

Trustworthy AAL Design Cards

Riva, Gianluigi M.; Fedosov, Anton; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Colantonio, Sara; Lutz, Christoph; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian M.; Colonna, Liane; Lameski, Petre; Zdravevski, Eftim; Pocta, Peter; Sklavos, Nicolas; Puaschitz, Nathalie G.S.; Dantas, Carina; Metin, Ebru; van Staalduinen, Willeke; Gürçinar, Elif
Trustworthy AAL Design Cards

GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2024

50 questions on Active Assisted Living technologies. Global edition

Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Ake-Kob, Alin; Climent-Perez, Pau; Coelho, Paulo; Colonna, Liane; Dahabiyeh, Laila; Dantas, Carina; Dogru-Huzmeli, Esra; Ekenel, Hazim Kemal; Jevremovic, Aleksandar; Hosseini-Kivanani, Nina; Ilgaz, Aysegul; Jovanovic, Mladjan; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian M.; Lameski, Petre; Luna, Ferlanda; Machado, Natália; Mujirishvili, Tamara; Pajalic, Zada; Petrova, Galidiya; Puaschitz, Nathalie G.S.; Santofimia, Maria Jose; Solanas, Agusti; van Staalduinen, Wilhelmina; Yazici, Ziya Ata
50 questions on Active Assisted Living technologies. Global edition

GoodBrother Cost Action, Technical Report, 2024

Position paper on ethical, legal and social challenges linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions

Ake-Kob, Alin; Aleksic, Slavisa; Alexin, Zoltán; Blaževičienė, Aurelija; Čartolovni, Anto; Colonna, Liane; Dantas, Carina; Fedosov, Anton; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; He, Zhicheng; Jevremović, Aleksandar; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian; Lambrinos, Lambros; Lutz, Christoph; Malešević, Anamaria; Mekovec, Renata; Miguel, Cristina; Mujirishvili, Tamar; Pajalic, Zada; Perez Vega, Rodrigo; Pierscionek, Barbara; Ravi, Siddharth; Sarf, Pika; Solanas, Agusti; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia
Position paper on ethical, legal and social challenges linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions

GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2022

State of the art on ethical, legal, and social issues linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions

Ake-Kob, Alin; Blazeviciene, Aurelija; Colonna, Liane; Čartolovni, Anto; Colantonio, Sara; Dantas, Carina; Fedosov, Anton; Florez-Revuelta, Francisco; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; He, Zhicheng; Klimczuk, Andrzej; Kuźmicz, Maksymilian; Lukács, Adrienn; Lutz, Christoph; Mekovec, Renata; Miguel, Cristina; Mordini, Emilio; Pajalic, Zada; Pierscionek, Barbara Krystyna; Santofimia Romero, Maria Jose; Salah, Albert Ali; Sobecki, Andrzej; Solanas, Agusti; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia
State of the art on ethical, legal, and social issues linked to audio- and video-based AAL solutions

GoodBrother COST Action, Technical Report, 2022

Balance of interest and AAL

Maksymilian Kuźmicz
Balance of interest and AAL

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2022

About the ESR

Maksymilian obtained a BA in Law and Philosophy (Summa cum laude) from the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at the KU Lublin. During both his BA and MA, he spent in total 3 semesters at KU Leuven as an exchange student. He completed his education with an MA in Law from KU Lublin (Summa cum laude). Since September 2020 Maksymilian has been working at the Institute for European Law at KU Leuven.

Contact information

Maksymilian Kuźmicz

The Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI)

Department of Law
Stockholm University
Universitetsvägen 10C
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Email address: maksymilian.kuzmicz@juridicum.su.se

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