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Rethinking the Digital Omnibus’ Impact on the EU AI Act: Simplification or Dilution? 

Rachele Carli, Tatjana Titareva, Virginia Dignum
Introduction The adoption of the European Union AI Act (hereafter AI Act) marks a milestone in the union’s ambition to shape trustworthy, human-centric artificial intelligence (AI). It reflects an effort to ground innovation in fundamental human rights – an approach that has positioned...

AI first to purpose first: Rethinking Europe’s AI strategy

Virginia Dignum, Rachele Carli, Petter Ericson, Tatjana Titareva, Jason Tucker
Abstract This paper examines the European Commission 'AI First' strategy, arguing that it places acceleration and economic competitiveness above democratic values, societal benefit, and human-centric innovation. While substantial investment in...

Policy gap: AI and the determinants of public health

There is growing interest in how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied in public health - from individual-level interventions such as diagnosis, treatment, and patient follow-up in healthcare, to broader...

The Ecological and Ethical Cost of Scaling AI

1. The Material Demands of AI Artificial intelligence has been presented to the world as a technology driving economic and social transformation, being efficient and minimal environmental impact. Yet the...

Tracing labour, power, and information in Artificial Intelligence Systems

1. Introduction It is common for technology to be used to obscure the role of humans, and artificial intelligence (AI)is a field where this is even more true than for...

Time Out of Joint: Historical reflections on AI

Artificial Intelligence. The very term conjures images of futuristic robots and sentient machines for some, and images of climatic collapse and existential risk to others. This AI hype represents a disjoint...