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"Preface" [2020] ELECD 239; in Hildebrandt, Mireille; O'Hara, Kieron (eds), "Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) xii

Book Title: Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency

Editor(s): Hildebrandt, Mireille; O’Hara, Kieron

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Preface
In 2015, after a long period of study acquainting herself with the detail of
machine learning, artificial intelligence and the transformation of agency
through the analysis of data, one of us (Mireille) published her book Smart
Technologies and the End(s) of Law (hereafter The End(s)). This also
followed Mireille's participation in the Onlife Initiative, an EU initiative
spearheaded by Nicole Dewandre and Luciano Floridi, which explored a
number of key technological transformations, including the blurring of
previously clear distinctions between `reality' and `virtuality', `human' and
`machine', and `natural' and `artificial', in a world where information was
no longer scarce but abundant. These transformations have modified our
relations to ourselves, to each other, and to the social world in general.
In particular, the public sphere ­ hardly an unproblematic concept at the
best of times ­ is now a far more complex, and potentially dangerous,
place than it was throughout the twentieth century. Notions of privacy,
identity, autonomy, non-discrimination, due process and the presumption
of innocence are altered, subtly or not so subtly, with the result that we
need to be vigilant to ensure that law remains an instrument of justice.
The End(s) struck a chord with a number of commentators and
thinkers, and was critically discussed in a number of forums; it also formed
the kernel of a successful bid with the European Research Council, result-
ing in an ERC Advanced Grant for Mireille, to engage a cross-disciplinary
research team on the subject of computational ...


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