Speaker: Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann, AlgorithmWatch
Date: 28.05.2026, 12:00 pm
Title: The EU AI Act in Practice: How is the Implementation Going?
Abstract:
“Don’t ask what the AI Act can do for you, ask what you can do for the AI Act.” This talk offers a short introduction to the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), outlining its core objectives, risk-based structure, and fundamental rights safeguards. It explores implementation challenges, loopholes, and enforcement uncertainties that may affect its real-world impact.
The lecture also examines why the EU is already proposing legislative changes through the so-called AI Omnibus Package, even before the Act is fully implemented.
Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann
Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann is the team lead for Policy at AlgorithmWatch. His research and advocacy work focuses on the use of algorithmic decision-making in the public sector and on the sustainability of AI. Before joining AlgorithmWatch, Kilian worked on the topic digital rights and surveillance at the think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, in particular on the rights-based regulation of government access to data and effective intelligence oversight.
Previous to that, he had been a researcher at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights and a consultant for political communication and organizing. He holds a dual master's degree in Political Science and European Affairs from Free University Berlin and Sciences Po Paris.
