http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230908-062850-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/an-interdisciplinary-toolbox-for-researching-the-ai-act/ An Interdisciplinary Toolbox for Researching the AI-Act Metikoš, Ljubiša eng 2023-09-08 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 AI AI Act AIA Interdisciplinarity Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The proposed AI-act (AIA) will fundamentally transform the production, distribution, and use of AI-systems across the EU. Legal research has an important role to play in both clarifying and evaluating the AIA. To this end, legal researchers may employ a legal-doctrinal method, and focus on the AIA’s provisions and recitals to describe or evaluate its obligations. However, legal-doctrinal research is not a panacea that can fully operationalize or evaluate the AIA on its own. Rather, with the support of interdisciplinary research, we can better understand the AIA’s vague provisions, test its real-life application, and create practical design requirements for the developers of AI-systems. This blogpost gives a short glimpse into the methodological toolbox for researching the AI-act.