AI and governance: law, politics, and bioethics
Authors: Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R.
Publication Date: 01/01/2025
Pages: 287-317
DOI: 10.4337/9781788116671.00023
Abstract:This chapter assesses the contributions that can be made by, respectively, law, politics, and bioethics to the governance of AI. It focuses, in particular, on the somewhat different governance regimes now being articulated for the EU and the UK. However, this assessment is subject to the proviso that the context for discussion at least allows for the possibility of governance. While the EU's Regulation on AI adopts a relatively precautionary risk-based regime, the UK's ‘pro-innovation’ approach proposes a more flexible principle-based soft law regime. Particular attention is paid to the idea of an ecosystem of trust that is a feature of both regimes and to the EU's insistence that applications of AI should be human-centric. Broadly speaking, the chapter concludes that, subject to favourable background conditions (which cannot be taken for granted), the expectation is that regulatory politics will take the lead in laying out the basic framework for the governance of AI; that law will have a role to play in checking that governance is compatible with the fundamental values of the community; and that bioethics can make a critical input into the process, for example, by elaborating our understanding of trust and human-centricity.
Source: Scopus