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Why a Right to Explanation of Automated Decision-Making Does Not Exist in the General Data Protection Regulation

Since approval of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016, it has been widely and repeatedly claimed that a ‘right to explanation’ of all decisions made by automated or artificially intelligent algorithmic systems will be legally mandated by the GDPR once it is in force, in 2018. However, there are several reasons …

Digital’s Cleaving Power and Its Consequences

“AI is not about reproducing human intelligence, it is about doing without it. [..] Today, AI decouples successful problem solving from intelligent behaviour, and it is thanks to this decoupling that it can relentlessly colonise the boundless space of tasks, whenever these can be successfully performed without any understanding, awareness, sensitivity, concerns, hunches, insights, meaning, …