March 30th – dr Kamil Mamak – Cyfrowe wygnanie – stara sankcja w świecie wirtualnym
This time, dr Kamil Mamak (Jagiellonian University) explored the concept of cyberbanishment. The Seminar was held in Polish.
This sanction refers to the old-fashioned punishment of forbidding a person to be present in specific places, but instead of physical locations this sanction applies in digital spheres. The proposition of introducing cyberbanishment is based on a few observations. First, current practices of punishment are problematic, and there is a need for alternative punishments. Second, this form of sanction may constitute a proper response to crimes committed online, for instance hate crimes or punishable threats. Third, the online sphere becomes more important each year, and this was even amplified by the recent pandemic. The development of virtual realities and metaverses could contribute to this trend. Fourth, as an instrument imposed by courts, cyber banishment may increase judicial control over the limitations of constitutionally protected freedoms in the online world, which is currently decided mainly by the platforms themselves.
Kamil Mamak is a philosopher and a lawyer. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the RADAR: Robophilosophy, AI ethics and Datafication research group at the University of Helsinki and a Research Assistant at the Department of Criminal Law at the Jagiellonian University. He is also a Member of the Board of the Cracow Institute of Criminal Law. He holds PhDs in law (2018) from Jagiellonian University and philosophy (2020) from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow. He has authored four book monographs, his most recent one entitled „Robotics, AI and Criminal Law: Crimes against Robots” will be published in 2023 by Routledge. His works were published in international journals, including the European Journal of Criminology; Ethics and Information Technology; International Journal of Social Robotics; AI & Society; Medicine, Healthcare, and Philosophy; Science and Engineering Ethics; European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice; Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He received a research grant from the National Science Centre in Poland.
