This podcast series is dedicated to digital governance. Digital governance is broadly understood as the legal and institutional rules which provide the framework in which digitalization unfolds. The podcasts will be centered around the research done by our DIGOV fellows. We will publish a series of podcasts, which are made using the AI tool Notebook LM. Each podcast will discuss a different article or book chapter, all within the broad framework of digital governance. The podcast series star ...
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Klaus Heine Podcasts
The GDPR has shaken up the world for both businesses and consumers. New rights and obligations have emerged, and many revolve around various data protection requests. The recent case C-307/22 was analysed by Larisa Munteanu in a brief study that highlights how inconsistency may arise from attempted consistency, at EU level: Can "abusive requests" b…
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What Shall we do with the Drunken Sailor? Product Safety in the Aftermath of 3D Printing
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12:293D-printing aligns the digital and the material world. It questions the necessity of large scale production facilities for producing homogenous cheap products. It also questions the distinction between producer and consumer. This has very tangible repercussions for attributing liability. The podcast is guided by the paper ‘What shall we do with the…
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Lobbying and social media: science communication as a case study.
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14:36Social media has profoundly changed the communication between scientists and the public. Social media allows scientists to instantly communicate their sometimes not peer-reviewed research results to a wide audience. This gives scientists the chance to get political influence, although the research results are possibly wrong. What are the motives an…
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Liability of Artificial Intelligence Systems – or: In Search of Lost Time.
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18:04AI causes accountability gaps, but there is not yet a methodological toolkit to close those gaps. What are the problems of the contemporary methods? A distinction is made between law as practice and law as science. Legal history is proposed as a source of inspiration for today’s legal problems of AI. The discussion is guided by an academic chapter …
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What can epistemology and moral philosophy teach law?
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10:59This podcast asks on the most basic level, what the legal options are for giving AI legal status. This means a rigorous analysis of the relation between human and non-human decision makers. The podcast involves the question of consciousness, the meaning of legal personhood and a discussion of contractarian approaches. Only a good knowledge of these…
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Bridging the accountability gap of artificial intelligence – What can be learned from Roman law?
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22:09AI creates new problems for the attribution of responsibility. The incumbent law is not yet ready to close those gaps of responsibility. The look back into Roman Law might be helpful to get an idea of how the past dealt with autonomous agents and liability. Especially, how the Romans integrated slaves as decision making agents in their business tra…
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