The article takes an in-depth look at the AI Act’s governance approach to non-high-risk AI systems and provides a multi-perspective analysis of the challenges that the EU’s regulation of AI brings about.
The Brazilian Social Security Management Office's AI system reduces the waiting list but increases automatic refusals, harming beneficiaries and increasing inequality in the delivery of public services to the poorest and elderly people.
This paper uncovers the risks inherent in facial recognition within law enforcement, exploring multidimensional aspects affecting data protection vs public security within the regulatory frameworks of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Artificial Intelligence Act.
This article explores some conditions and possibilities for public contestability in AI governance; a critical attribute of governance arrangements designed to align AI deployment with the public interest.
This article considers the public value of automated and datafied welfare and uses the capability approach, buen vivir, and data justice to explore the relation between the procedural and normative components of emerging infrastructures of welfare.
As the debate on public interest AI is still a young and emerging one, we see this special issue as a way to help establish this field and its community by bringing together interdisciplinary positions and approaches.
The principle of proportionality not only addresses the conflict among competing interests under Article 15(1)(h) GDPR but also shapes the justifications for public interest restrictions on the right of access to AI decision-making information.
This paper investigates decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) as a potential policy response to the issue of declining trust online and argues that while DAOs have privileged displacing the need for trust, they can also be designed to nourish trust thereby fostering participation and prosocial use cases.
This study critically discusses platforms’ non-compliance with data access based on a collaborative policy effort from scholars engaging in data donation studies.
This article provides an initial analysis of the EU AI Act's approach to general-purpose artificial intelligence, arguing that the regulation marks a significant shift from reactive to proactive AI governance, while concerns about its enforceability, democratic legitimacy and future-proofing remain.