S7E6: The Politics and Governance of Big Data and AI

Andrej Zwitter and Oskar Gstrein share with Chris what they will be keeping an eye out for in the AI regulatory space in 2024. They also discuss their latest work on the politics and governance of big data and artificial intelligence and their newly published Handbook on the Governance Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In this discussion Andrej and Oskar explore the EU AI Act and challenges that datafication and algorithmic logics pose for governance, privacy, and human agency, and ponder the question: what does it mean to stay human in the age of AI?Show Notes:Andrej Zwitter and Oskar Gstrein (eds.), Research Handbook on Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Edward Elgar, 2023, Partially Open Access.Dirk Helbing, Thomas Beschorner, Bruno Frey, Andreas Diekmann, Thilo Hagendorff, Peter Seele, Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Jeroen van den Hoven, and Andrej Zwitter. “Triage 4.0: On Death Algorithms and Technological Selection. Is Today’s Data- Driven Medical System Still Compatible with the Constitution?” Journal of European CME Vol. 10, no. 1, 2021Oskar Gstrein and Andrej Zwitter, “Extraterritorial application of the GDPR: Promoting European values or power?”, Internet Policy Review Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2021Andrej Zwitter, Oskar Gstrein, Evan Yap, “Digital Identity and the Blockchain: Universal Identity Management and the concept of the 'Self-Sovereign' Individual”, Frontiers in Blockchain, Vol. 3/26, 2020Links:European AI Regulation: Brussels Effect versus Human Dignity?Also available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4214358How to protect privacy in a datafied society? A presentation of multiple legal and conceptual approaches