Published On: January 20, 2026

Secondment: Maria Vittoria Izzi

 

Institution of origin

Faculty of Law, University of Trento – BioLaw Laboratory

Host institution

 Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki

Initial objective

Development and critical evaluation of legal indicators and metrics designed to assess the social dimensions of AI, with a specific focus on the project’s two use cases (medical image recognition systems and LLMs).
Results achieved
Core research activity
The primary results concern the core objective of the task associated with the secondment – namely, conducting a comprehensive review of established legal indicators and related metrics for assessing AI in medical image recognition systems and LLMs.
This work was conducted in close collaboration with my supervisor at the University of Helsinki, Aaro Tupasela, alongside other members of the Helsinki AHEAD team, Terhi Esko and Eira Syvälähde, as well as with my supervisor at the University of Trento, Marta Tomasi, and another member of the Trento unit, Marta Fasan.

Through our meetings, we outlined specific social metrics associated with each indicator and identified the main unresolved legal issues arising in these contexts. This process ultimately enabled me to produce a concise commentary on each indicator and its corresponding metric, outlining their scope, applicability, and legal constraints, while ensuring that the material remains accessible to scholars and practitioners from other disciplines involved in AI assessment and in the Project consortium.

The resulting materials will be shared with all project members and will form the basis for further tasks, including identifying tags for the materials to be collected in the AHEAD observatory.
Training and academic activities

During the secondment, I also took part in substantial training activities related to Artificial Intelligence. These involved bi-weekly attendance of lectures in the course “Changing Dynamics of Law, Technology and Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Current Research”, taught by Professors Riikka Koulu and Terhi Esko in the Master’s Programme in Law, as well as participation in the weekly meetings of the Legal Tech Lab at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law.
These meetings included discussions of members’ papers and topics concerning the use of AI and the associated legal challenges. Attending the course lectures and actively participating in the Legal Tech Lab meetings strengthened my scientific knowledge of artificial intelligence and enabled me to approach the secondment’s task in a more comprehensive and well-informed manner.