Although nearly all AI regulatory documents now make reference to the importance of human-centring of digital systems, Artificial intelligence (AI) ethics itself is frequently reduced only to concerns of bias and perhaps power consumption. While both these considerations are of immense importance—altering human lives and our ecosystem—our concerns should go far further. Ethics is every means by which a society perpetuates itself, and as such goes deeply into rights ranging from employment, and healthcare, to physical and perhaps cyber security. Meanwhile, AI is coming to mediate every aspect of our interactions, yet is largely controlled by a small number of transnational corporations. In this talk I will discuss the EU's right, competence, and current attempts to regulate the application of AI within our borders. I will use recent events to reconsider our understandings of rights, sovereignty, and democracy.

The lecture takes place in the DIAS Auditorium, Fioniavej 34, Odense campus, 20/3, 11.15-12.15.
Everybody is welcome and no registration is needed.

The lecture is a collaboration between the Danish Institute for Advanced Study and the Digital Democracy Center (DDC)