MARIA SCHULZ
Interdisciplinary AI & Law Researcher, Consultant
Talks, Panels, Workshops and other Media
Sometimes I hold a microphone and talk into it, sometimes I write, and on some of these days, people might even like things I do and mention them ;-)
Selected Talks & Panels
2026
Are we prepared? Legal responses to AI-driven bioterrorism threats
Track: Weaponizing infrastructure
Panel: AI, Critical Infrastructure, and Security Law
TILTing Perspectives Conference: Between Values and Innovation: Tech Governance in a Multicentric World, June 2026, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
2025
Applying ABS principles and Indigenous data sovereignty to AI governance
Track: Law, Governance & AI
Sustainable AI Conference: "Shaping Sustainable AI and its Futures", September 2025, Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
2025
Summer School on IT Law and Legal Informatics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
2024
Panel: Ethical AI Implementation Opportunities and Challenges
2050: Imaging the good AI Conference, Data Natives, Berlin, Germany
2024
Track: AI as a knowledge-making power in the majority worlds
Panel: AI and the protection and development of traditional and indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage data
TILTing Perspectives Conference: “Looking back, moving forward”: Re-assessing technology regulation in digitalized worlds, July 2024, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Chair
2026
Panel: AI-Driven Inferences and Privacy
TILTing Perspectives Conference: Between Values and Innovation: Tech Governance in a Multicentric World, June 2026, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Selected Workshop Contributions
2026
AIxBio: Safety Evaluations, Governance, and Standards
Hosted by IASEAI during the annual IASEAI Conference, UNESCO House, Paris, France
2024
Cross-fertilization between the EU approach to AI & the UNESCO AI Recommendation
Hosted by IFAP UNESCO Working Group on Information Ethics during TILTing Perspectives Conference: “Looking back, moving forward”: Re-assessing technology regulation in digitalized worlds, July 2024, Tilburg University, Netherlands
* Results of the workshop have been presented during the "Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme, 13th, Paris, 2025" see document IFAP-2025/COUNCIL.13/Inf.4
Media
2025
Podcast "Kollegin KI", Episode #3 - KI im Job rechtlich sauber einsetzen
Kollegin KI is a German podcast produced by OMR, one of the world's largest digital marketing companies that hosts festivals and events and produces podcasts.
This episode was in the Top 100 episodes on technology on Apple Podcasts for a couple of weeks.
In the Press
2026
AI systems may be fueling ‘digital colonialism’ through indigenous data extraction
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