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Personal Data and User Profiling Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
How should tech be regulated?

Companies have significant influence over public discourse in online platforms, necessitating that the algorithms that shape these online platforms should be regulated and constrained to sufficiently consider the public interest (Susskind, 2018: 350).

Effect of Technology: Concentration of Power, Legitimacy
Democratic values: Accountability, Equality, Fairness, Trust
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AI and Awareness AI and Culture Algorithmic Accountability Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry SSH Researcher
Individual Aspects of the AI challenges

The aim of the first three modules of KT4D’s Social Risk Toolkit thus focuses on the individual aspects of this challenge and is multifaceted.

Effect of Technology: Culture, Democracy, Individuals, Society
Democratic values: Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Computer Scientist Industry SSH Researcher
Legal and regulatory frameworks related to personal data and user profiling

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of how AI, big data and frontier technologies impact rights from the data protection perspective.

Effect of Technology: Law, Privacy, Surveillance
Democratic values: Equality, Fairness, Rule of Law, Transparency, Trust
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AI and Culture Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Inclusive Digital Democracy Personal Data and User Profiling Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
Policy Brief - Culture's Role in Navigating Technological Change

The policy brief published by KT4D suggests that examining culture allows for a deeper understanding of societal responses to AI development.

Effect of Technology: Culture, Democracy, Individuals, Law
Democratic values: Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
Risks for the use of personal data and user profiling

The current EU approach to AI regulation faces several challenges and limitations that need to be addressed.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Opacity, Polarisation, Privacy, Society, Surveillance
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Transparency, Trust
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Critical Digital Citizenship Freedom and Manipulation Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
Risks to individual freedoms of speech and action

Since our liberal democracies generally employ forms of representativeness to their institutions, the impact of AI on free and fair elections is also one of the key ways in which technology affects our polities.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Polarisation, Privacy, Society, Surveillance
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Computer Scientist Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
The value of democracy

There are both instrumental and intrinsic reasons to value democracy. In short, democracy is valuable instrumentally because: 

(1) democracy can assist us in producing laws and policies that protect the rights and interests of citizens, 

Effect of Technology: Agency, Culture, Democracy, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Legitimacy, Opacity, Society
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Pluralism, Rule of Law, Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Computer Scientist Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
What are Knowledge Technologies?

Knowledge technologies, as distinct from information technologies, have been defined in the Module C of the social risk toolkit.

Democratic values: Transparency, Trust
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