Joanna Bryson: AI governance

The development, risks and opportunities posed by AI are the subject of much public debate and firmly on the policy agenda. Discussions around digital governance, rooted in the fundamental ethical questions governing human behaviour and our societies, reveal the social, economic and political values and objectives of the governments and institutions behind them. Increasing polarisation in our societies, including strong variations within and across the EU may have significant impacts on the general direction of global AI development and regulation. How will the EU's relative international leadership in this regard evolve? What do other guises of AI governance look like? Seasoned ethics and technology professor Joanna Bryson argues the relationship between deteriorating economic climate, increasing inequality and its corollary of increasing polarisation in our (western) societies, is central to success in AI governance.