This policy brief illustrates the potential negative and positive impacts of AI and reviews related policy strategies adopted by the UK, US, EU, as well as Canada and China. Based on an ethical approach that considers the role of AI from a democratic perspective and considering the public interest, the authors make policy recommendations that help to strengthen the positive impact of AI and to mitigate its negative consequences.
DR MERCEDES BUNZ is Senior Lecturer at CAMRI (Communications and Media Research Institute), University of Westminster and author (with Graham Meikle) of The Internet of Things (Polity, 2018). She has given evidence at the House of Lords’ Select Committee for Artificial Intelligence, October 2017.
DR LAIMA JANCIUTE was Research Fellow of the Policy Observatory at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster.