Posts in 2025
From Definition to Regulation: Is the European Union Getting AI Right?

Joanna J. Bryson, Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Rights: The AI Act of the European Union and Its Implications for Global Technology Regulation, Verein für Recht und Digitalisierung e.V., Institute for Digital Law Trier (IRDT), pp. 11-33, 21 August 2025. 

This volume emerged from the 2024 annual conference of the Digital Law Institute Trier. My contribution shares my experience advising on the EU’s AI Act from its earliest stages. I discuss the legitimacy of the process to counteract misinformation, and explain why I think the act is a rock-solid piece of legislation and a good addition to our capacity for regulation.

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Do We Collaborate With What We Design?

Katie D. Evans, Scott A. Robbins, and Joanna J. Bryson, Topics in Cognitive Science, 17(2): 392-411, April 2025. 

In this paper, we critically assess both the accuracy and desirability of using the term “collaboration” to describe interactions between humans and AI systems. We begin by proposing an alternative ontology of human–machine interaction, one which features not two equivalently autonomous agents, but rather one machine that exists in a relationship of heteronomy to one or more human agents. In this sense, while the machine may have a significant degree of independence concerning the means by which it achieves its ends, the ends themselves are always chosen by at least one human agent, whose interests may differ from those of the individuals interacting with the machine. We finally consider the motivations and risks inherent to the continued use of the term “collaboration,” exploring its strained relation to the concept of transparency, and consequences for the future of work.

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