In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

When it comes to technology, scalability—its capacity to be standardized and then distributed en masse and across contexts—is the ultimate goal. Scientists and engineers view scalability as the route ...

Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)

Digital data are increasingly framed as essential resources in health and medicine, implicating diverse actors who work to transform them into different forms o...

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Maxim Tvorun-Dunn (University of Tokyo) It is no secret that academic writing is built on unequal and exploitative relations with the publishing industry, wherein the largely unpaid act of producing a...

Many countries and jurisdictions are reforming their competition policies in response to growing political and public concerns about market concentration, espec...

Following the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) began to

For Europe, being the 'universal standard' for tech regulation has become an end unto itself, write Petros Terzis and Joris van Hoboken.

Process-oriented approaches to the responsible development, implementation, and oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) systems have proliferated in recent years. Variously referred to as lifecycles...

Two years in, generative AI’s value to the world is still unclear. But these charts show that it’s been a bonanza for the largest tech firms.