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The challenge of mixing ethics with algorithms

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom September 30, 2022October 7, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Childhood, Digital rights

Development of the fourth industrial revolution, with the continual expansion of big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms, poses enormously important challenges that far transcend the world of technology. A new society is being shaped that requires a new social pact, based on an ethical commitment in the use of algorithms, with full respect for fundamental human rights and adaptation of these basic protections to the digital environment.

Children and algorithms: this is how we opened the door to online monitoring of students during the pandemic

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom May 30, 2022May 30, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Childhood, coronavirus

We had no choice: Starting in spring 2020, with the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, children all over the world continued their schooling via online classes. And it was, in this dramatic context, a solution; undoubtedly, much better than being away from schooling for months and months due to a lack of means and connectivity.

The EU and regulation of Artificial Intelligence

European Association for Digital Transition Democratic quality April 29, 2022May 30, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, European Commission

It’s been a year since the European Commission presented its Proposal for regulation of Artificial Intelligence, an important step toward providing the entire EU with a clear and unified legal framework on the use of this technology.

Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection: an impossible relationship?

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom February 11, 2022March 7, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, European Data Protection Supervisor, Interviews

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the main challenges facing humanity in the near term. Nevertheless, the large geopolitical blocs are facing the situation from different perspectives.

Without confidence, the Digital Transition in Health will be a failure

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom January 17, 2022January 17, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, health, Spain

In December 2021, the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System approved its Digital Health Strategy (In Spanish, ESD-SNS), an ambitious roadmap for the Spanish health sector’s digital transition. The document appeared just weeks after the European Commission’s latest Study on eHealth, Interoperability of Health Data and Artificial Intelligence for Health and Care in the European Union.

Artificial Intelligence can’t be a China-US duopoly

European Association for Digital Transition Economic future October 6, 2021October 6, 2021Artificial Intelligence, China, Data Governance Act, USA

A recent report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warns of the disparities occurring in development of the data economy and, more specifically, in its application to an area of enormous potential, Artificial Intelligence (AI). The ‘Digital Economy Report 2021. Cross-border data flows and development: For whom the data flow’ details somewhat crudely a panorama that has been worrisome for the EADT since its beginnings: A China-US duopoly is being built, in which all the rest, and also Europe, of course, would be little more than just data providers.

The EU now has a strategy to face development of Artificial Intelligence

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom February 21, 2020June 9, 2021Artificial Intelligence, China, Digital rights, European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, USA

On February 19, 2020, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, fulfilled one of the promises she made when taking her position: to publish a White Paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the first 100 days of her mandate. With this text, open for public consultation until May 19, 2020, the European Union clarifies its general outlines to face one of the greatest challenges of our time: To get the best possible results from Artificial Intelligence without leaving anyone behind or harming liberties and civil rights.