Volume 13, Issue 3

• The European approach to regulating AI through technical standards

  Mélanie Gornet, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  Winston Maxwell, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  

• Estonia’s digital diplomacy: Nordic interoperability and the challenges of cross-border e-governance

  Alex Hardy, University of Liverpool
  

• But did they really? Platforms’ compliance with the Code of Practice on Disinformation in review

  Stephan Mündges, TU Dortmund University
  Kirsty Park, European Digital Media Observatory
  

• Blocking the information war? Testing the effectiveness of the EU’s censorship of Russian state propaganda among the fringe communities of Western Europe

  Christiern Santos Okholm, European University Institute
  Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Maastricht University
  Marijn ten Thij, Maastricht University
  

• General-purpose AI regulation and the European Union AI Act

  Oskar J. Gstrein, University of Groningen
  Noman Haleem, University of Groningen
  Andrej Zwitter, University of Groningen
  

• Fulfilling data access obligations: How could (and should) platforms facilitate data donation studies?

  Valerie Hase, LMU Munich
  Jef Ausloos, University of Amsterdam
  Laura Boeschoten, Utrecht University
  Nico Pfiffner, University of Zurich
  Heleen Janssen, University of Amsterdam
  Theo Araujo, University of Amsterdam
  Thijs Carrière, Utrecht University
  Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam
  Jörg Haßler, LMU Munich
  Felicia Loecherbach, University of Amsterdam
  Zoltán Kmetty, Centre for Social Sciences
  Judith Möller, University of Hamburg – Leibniz Institute for Media Research (HBI)
  Jakob Ohme, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
  Elisabeth Schmidbauer, LMU Munich
  Bella Struminskaya, Utrecht University
  Damian Trilling, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Kasper Welbers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Mario Haim, LMU Munich
  

• The unusual DAO: An ethnography of building trust in “trustless” spaces

  Tara Merk, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/University of Paris II
  

• SPECIAL ISSUE

  AI systems for the public interest

  • EDITORIAL: Introduction to the special issue on AI systems for the public interest

    Theresa Züger, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
    Hadi Asghari, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
    
  Contesting the public interest in AI governanceBalancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systemsRestricting access to AI decision-making in the public interest: The justificatory role of proportionality and its balancing factors Navigating data governance risks: Facial recognition in law enforcement under EU legislationPublic value in the making of automated and datafied welfare futuresBalancing efficiency and public interest: The impact of AI automation on social benefit provision in BrazilMisguided: AI regulation needs a shift in focusOn the (im)possibility of sustainable artificial intelligenceInterview with Katharina Meyer: On the tension between public interest and profit maximisation in public interest tech Interview with Friederike Rohde: The environmental impact of AI as a public interest concernInterview with Ulrike Klinger and Philipp Hacker: Why the public interest gets lost in the AI gold rush