The digital information environment, once celebrated for democratizing access to knowledge, is today a contested space riddled with manipulation, mistrust, and algorithmic opacity. AI-generated deepfakes, foreign interference in elections, and algorithmic amplification of disinformation, pose unprecedented challenged to legal systems by…
Breaking Big Tech’s Grip: A Roadmap to a Democratic Digital Future
In an era where digital technologies influence nearly every aspect of modern life, the question of who controls these technologies has become increasingly urgent. The dominance of a handful of tech giants—primarily U.S.-based companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, along with…
AI as an imminent danger to human rights and democracy: The steps taken by the Council of Europe
by Dávid Szász Artificial intelligence (hereinafter: AI) will change the world as we know it without doubt. For better or worse? That remains to be seen. The steps humanity will take in the forthcoming years in order to regulate the development…