Social Europe June 5, 2020
The coronavirus crisis demands a regulatory framework for the application of AI to protect public health without jeopardising human rights.
Our world has been shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, pushing policy-makers to scramble for solutions. And even though the full set of such solutions remains elusive, already a return to normal is debated.
But what will this ‘normal’ be? Powerful forces presume that the world before Covid-19 is the normal to which to return and it falls on progressives to push for new fundamentals—to help formulate a ‘new’ normal. Clearly this is multifaceted and one facet is the role of technology.
Undeniable role
Artificial intelligence, as a revolutionary force in restructuring production and consumption patterns, has long been...