suggested citation: J. Sarrión Esteve, Investigación científica e Inteligencia Artificial: perspectivas constitucionales, lceonline (www.lceonline.eu), 3/2025, I/Saggi e contributi, p. 51 ss.
key words: artificial intelligence, AI principles, ethics, research, law, technolaw
abstract: The development of Artificial Intelligence systems poses risks to the protection of human rights and freedoms. To address these risks, the European Union is developing an ethical and regulatory framework of digital and technological governance that puts people at the center. The new Artificial Intelligence Act is one of the important milestones in this process of building the regulatory framework, which, however, excludes scientific activity from its scope, with some exceptions. Therefore, the research activity with AI systems must comply with applicable ethical principles. In this work, we attempt to explore these (ethical) principles. that are called to govern scientific research with AI systems and that, inferred from different texts such as the Ethical Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, integrate both principles already recognized in the legal framework (legal principles) as well as ethical principles (meta-legal) that complement each other within the emerging European law of science and technology or techno-law, forming a new legal tango with which we may “dance” to guarantee the maximum guarantee to the rights and freedoms of people, including the entire process of scientific research with AI systems.
