Supervision of Artificial Intelligence in the EU and the Protection of Privacy

• After decades of technological advancements, artificial intelligence (AI) is now causing a flurry of movement in the legal domain. Lately, strong caveats from developers in the AI industry seem to have been accompanied by increasing societal concern about the potential negative effects on humans of unregulated AI. As part of its European Digital Strategy, the EU has put forward a number of initiatives addressing AI. The most important of these is the regulation referred to as the Artificial Intelligence Act (“the AI Act”), proposed by the Commission in April 2021 and currently still under negotiation. If passed, this will be the first comprehensive legal instrument regarding AI at a global level. Following the regulatory success of the GDPR, the EU could once again take the lead in developing regulatory regimes creating both fair competition and foreseeability for market actors and protection of the rights and interests of individuals, guaranteed by effective cross-border enforcement machinery. Will the AI Act become the next example of the Brussels effect, as Anu Bradford has labeled it, and would this be a good idea?

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Juridik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Law (hsv//eng)

Keyword

AI Act

supervision

composite administration

privacy

förvaltningsrätt

förvaltningsrätt

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pop (subject category)

ovr (subject category)