Following the establishment of the AI Section of the ELI Spanish Hub in 2023, the Hub has advanced its work on AI this year by joining the Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ENIA) Chair on Generative AI: Challenges and Risks’, created by the University of San Pablo, Madrid.  Hub members, Alfredo Muñoz García (Complutense University, Madrid, including AI Section Coordinators, Carmen Muñoz García (Complutense University, Madrid) and Luz Martínez Velencoso (Valencia University), the Hub’s Chairs, Albert Ruda (University of Girona) and María Lubomira Kubica (Complutense University, Madrid) and ELI’s Executive Member, Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell (Carlos III University, Madrid), have joined this new initiative.

Led by Prof Idoia Salazar (San Pablo-CEU University, Madrid), the ENIA Chair is sponsored by the the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, and funded by the Next Generation Funds of the European Union. It marks a milestone in the exploration of the potentials and challenges associated with generative AI technologies. The collaboration agreements of ENIA Chair include the Observatory of the Social and Ethical Impact of Artificial Intelligence (OdiselA), HUMAN TRENOS, Narrativa, Women in a Legal World, Digitales, Microsoft Ibérica, Cenit, Audits Consulting Management S.L. (ACM), the Institute of Applied Ethics of the Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Mutualidad de la Abogacía: Ethic Committee of the Artificial Intelligence (CEIA). At the international level, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), IALAB- UBA: University of Buenos Aires, Global Al Ethics institute (France), Universidad Austral: OCEDIC lnnovation LAB (Argentina) also act as sponsors.

Its interdisciplinary advisory committee is formed by prestigious experts in the field such as Dafna Feinholz (head of Bioethics and Ethics of Science and Technology at UNESCO) and Leva Martinkenaite (member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI of the European Commission – HLEG Al), among others.

The ELI Spanish Hub Chairs and its IA Section see collaboration with the ENIA Chair as a pivotal step towards ensuring that AI development aligns with robust legal frameworks and ethical standards and as an opportunity of carrying out in-depth research in the field with possibility of its posterior dissemination at European level.