Part of what we do as social scientists is uncovering the hidden mechanisms that box people in and keep them from gaining more control over their lives - an emancipatory impulse, if you will. As more and more of our life is shifted onto digital tech and platforms, however, tracing the tentacles of power gets increasingly hard.

Until recently, AI was to be found everywhere except for political debates. Almost everyone agreed that AI was the key to future prosperity, and that a thriving society needed more of it. That has cha...

This article evaluates the sandbox approach as a regulatory answer to the challenges financial technology brings to finance and social relations. Taking fintech as a sociotechnological phenomenon e...

De AI-economie moet in dienst staan van de Nederlandse maatschappij, niet andersom. Marleen Stikker, Roel Dobbe en Daniel Mügge leggen uit hoe en geven speerpunten voor de formatie.

Digitalisering en AI veranderen de samenleving ingrijpend. Nederland heeft dringend een strategisch AI-beleid nodig voor autonomie en veiligheid.

As Europe considers its options to achieve digital sovereignty, it is time for a sober assessment of the prevailing innovation narrative, writes Daniel Mügge.

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the Dutch Research Council (NWO-VICI) project ‘Political Masculinities in Euro...

Daniel Mügge and Leevi Saari ask, "What are we to make of the EU's AI policy pivot?"

In the AI race, the gap between Europe and the United States was big already. And with a shot of Trump doping into the arm of Big Tech, it has only grown.

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All around, digital tech is embraced as the midwife for human progress. But often, its relentless expansion into all domains of life erodes real human…

We’re living through the first drone wars, but AI is poised to change the future of warfare even more drastically.

Trump’s win not only reminds Europe that it must be able to stand on its own feet in digital tech. It also illustrates the collateral damage unguided digitalisation can do to societies, writes Daniel ...

“AI made in Europe” has been the lodestar of EU AI policy since 2018. Six years later, US companies’ grip on everything digital in the EU has only tightened

Abstract. Offshore finance allows foreign banks to create US dollars under the laws of an offshore jurisdiction. How and why does this affect international

The EU has announced plans to make Europe a hub for artificial intelligence (AI). Daniel Mügge writes that while this sounds like a noble cause, the EU’s strategy is limited by its focus on enhanci…

EU policy emphasises the need for digital sovereignty, also in artificial intelligence (AI). But because such ‘AI sovereignty’ could be used for diverse and even conflicting goals, it obscures the ...

The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans.

AI Act: Hoe ziet de toekomst eruit zonder AI-wetgeving? NRC vroeg zes prominente AI-wetenschappers het leven te beschrijven van een Europese burger in 2040.

Building alliances for a progressive European vision

Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world?

Minister tells FT conference government wants to maintain a ‘pro-innovation’ approach to the technology

In the coming two months, the EU hopes to finalize the AI Act, its landmark rulebook for algorithms, their development and use. While much is settled, one key issue is still up in the air: how to regu...

The Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism and Liberty publish a report how just a handful of Big Tech companies – by exploiting existing monopoly power and aggressively co-opting ot...

A technical meeting on the EU’s AI regulation broke down on Friday (10 November) after large EU countries asked to retract the proposed approach for foundation models. Unless the deadlock is broken ...