Public Data, AI Applications and the Transformation of the State: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy

Kouroutakis, Antonios

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Public Data, AI Applications and the Transformation of the State: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy

dc.contributor.author	Kouroutakis, Antonios
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dc.date.accessioned	2024-11-26T10:35:35Z
dc.date.available	2024-11-26T10:35:35Z
dc.date.issued	2023-10-06
dc.description.abstract	The use of AI applications and their abilities might have an unparallel transformative force on the state and the administration’s relationship with citizens. Their application has the potential to usher in a new paradigm where alternative ways to perform administrative tasks may emerge. The deployment of such technology in the private and the public sector signals that the time has come for their regulation. The current EU legal framework and proposed legislation for regulating AI is limited in critical ways, as demonstrated by the analysis of the AI Act and positive law in the Part A. This article argues that AI applications employed by the public sector should be subject to a separate risk category for two reasons: first because specific safeguards are necessary in relation to the AI applications in the public sector in order to enhance the legitimacy and accountability of such applications, and second because AI applications in the public sector with access to the lake of data of the state create an unprecedented public resource, which must be safeguarded from malicious incumbents who would be keen to take advantage of such resource for self-entrenchment purposes.
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dc.description.status	Published
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dc.identifier.citation	Kouroutakis, Antonios E., Public Data, AI Applications and the Transformation of the State: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy (May 29, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4569189
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4569189
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3354
dc.journal.title	-
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	SSRN
dc.relation.department	Public Law & Global Governance
dc.relation.entity	IE University
dc.relation.school	IE Law School
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.keyword	AI
dc.subject.keyword	AI ACT proposa
dc.subject.keyword	Democracy
dc.subject.keyword	Self-entrenchment
dc.subject.keyword	Legitimacy
dc.subject.keyword	Accountability
dc.title	Public Data, AI Applications and the Transformation of the State: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy
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