Mennatullah Hendawy critically examines how AI systems often perpetuate societal inequities by prioritising majority perspectives, marginalising underrepresented groups. Drawing from examples like predictive policing and agricultural tools in the Global South, she underscores the importance of considering the positionality of AI creators.
This opinion piece discusses the recently adopted Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) by the European Parliament, highlighting its goals and regulatory structure. The authors argue that the Act's predominantly rule-based approach may not effectively balance innovation and regulation.
Klinger & Hacker highlight the risk of “public interest AI” simply becoming a marketing label, despite its potential, due to the inherent misalignment between for-profit goals and public interest aspirations.
Is the current regulatory focus on AI misguided? AI-based services are produced in agile production environments that are decades in the making and concentrated in the hands of a few companies. This article illustrates how AI is only the latest output of these production environments, gives an overview of the socio-technical as well as political-economic concerns these environments raise, and argues why they may be a better target for policy and regulatory interventions.
Rohde cautions that the economic structure that AI is currently being developed within is unfortunately at odds with the public interest. At the same time, she also believes that intelligent algorithms and digitalisation can in essence contribute to environmental and climate protection in tangible ways.
In this interview Meyer describes her thinking in the role of a funder and enabler of public interest technology, around how they could decide if a project is in the public interest or constitutes a public good, and various interactions between such projects/products and the market, including the importance of free and open source solutions.
Why it does not make sense to move faster when heading the wrong way.
Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is a country of contrasts and rare challenges that foster interesting internet policy perspectives.
The battle for data sovereignty is not just about who controls our information – it's about who controls our future. It's time we recognised the profound importance of this struggle and took our place on the front lines.
This piece examines the urgent need for a harmonised approach to balancing the rights to freedom of expression and information with the right to personal data protection under the EU legal system.