Research articles on Innovation

Identifying potential emerging human rights implications in Chinese smart cities via machine-learning aided patent analysis

Joss Wright, University of Oxford
Valentin Weber, German Council on Foreign Relations
Gregory Finn Walton, SecDev Group
PUBLISHED ON: 28 Jul 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.3.1718

We focus on using patent data, with machine learning methods, in the context of China, for the purpose of tracking the pace of development of potentially human rights sensitive smart city technologies.

Reproducing the GDPR provided the LGPD with principles that compel firms to innovate in the Brazilian privacy-enhancing technologies market. To rebalance opportunities for Brazilian firms, this paper advocates implementing local content policy for privacy-enhancing technologies.

KEYWORDS: Innovation, GDPR, LGPD

Beyond the individual: governing AI’s societal harm

Nathalie A. Smuha, KU Leuven
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Sep 2021 DOI: 10.14763/2021.3.1574

In this article, I propose a distinction between individual harm, collective harm and societal harm caused by artificial intelligence (AI), and focus particularly on the latter. By listing examples and identifying concerns, I provide a conceptualisation of AI’s societal harm so as to better enable its identification and mitigation. Drawing on an

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