In 2016, Oxford professor Luciano Floridi attempted to interest the EU in the ethics of artificial intelligence.
"The number of people who told me that was not an issue, that I was wasting their time, is remarkable," recalled Floridi in late 2020.
He persevered. Over the next years, as the European Commission set out to regulate AI, the ethics professor would become one of t...
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This is the second part of an investigation into the lobbying on the landmark EU proposal to regulate artificial intelligence, exploring how industry dominated the expert group advising the EU Commission on AI. Read the first part on the use of the technology in the public sector here.
Alina Yanchur, Camille Schyns, Greta Rosén Fondahn and Sarah Pilz are freelance investigative journalists.
This is the second part of an investigation into the lobbying on the landmark EU proposal to regulate artificial intelligence, exploring how industry dominated the expert group advising the EU Commission on AI. Read the first part on the use of the technology in the public sector here.