With the prospect of fully autonomous driving (AD) on the horizon, adequate political answers to normative challenges of AD become increasingly pressing. Some of these challenges concern the AI based automated decision-making processes essential for the function of AD: It is as of yet unclear which set of normative criteria should be used to guide the decision-making processes of an autonomous...
Questions of regulation are intricately tied to questions of autonomy and personhood. In this paper, while exploring the philosophical foundations of AI regulation, I argue that if Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to be morally autonomous then the search for regulation would lead us towards the existing regulation of natural persons and formulation of ‘reasonable algorithm’ standard....
I show that recent developments in AI technology (especially in Machine Learning in combination with Big Data) and its role in Surveillance Capitalism are not a direct, but only an indirect threat to democracy. Based on Lawrence Lessig’s “Code is Law,” I draw a more elaborated picture of regulation and argue that AI is subsisting on an empty shell of democracy while threatening the rule of...
