By introducing the concept of high-reach AI, this paper focuses on AI systems whose widespread use may generate significant risks for both individuals and societies. While some of those risks have been recognised under the AI Act, we analyse the rules laid down by the Digital Services Act (DSA)...

This article provides an initial analysis of the EU AI Act's (AIA) approach to regulating general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) - such as OpenAI's ChatGPT - and argues that it marks a significant shift from reactive to proactive AI governance. While this may alleviate concerns that...

Understanding Members of the European Parliament's (MEPs) attitudes and perceptions towards AI is crucial for aligning technological development with European values. This research paper focuses on the attitudes and perspectives of MEPs within the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in...

In December 2023, the European institutions reached a political agreement on the AI Act, a new regulation on artificial intelligence. The AI Act will require providers of high-risk AI systems to test their products against harmonised standards (hENs) before affixing a European Conformity (CE)...

In recent years, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have become three of the dominant developers of AI infrastructures and services. The increasing economic and political power of these companies over the data, computing infrastructures, and AI expertise that play a central role in the development of...

The continuous interaction between intelligent devices, sensors and people points to the increasing number of data being produced, stored and processed, changing, in various aspects and increasingly, our daily life. This increasing connectivity and symbiotic interaction among humans and...

The title of this piece is a somewhat heavy-handed word play. The property market I'mwriting about is the market in intellectual property, which is broken in so many ways, evidencedby the existence of patent mountains and patent trolls, fighting over how many angles they canfit in the 360...

This story is inspired by the growing feasibility of Decentralised AutonomousCorporations (DACs), operating by means of distributed blockchain technologies. The story isset in the near future where a decentralised corporation - powered by machine-learningalgorithms and fed on an unending stream...

It is 2038. In our data-driven future, data has been firmly established as an economicasset and new, data-driven smart technologies have changed the way we live, work, love, thinkand vote. However, privacy laws provide a powerful counterbalance against data usage, stiflinginnovation. Joanne...

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