Bauer's History

 In late august the European parliament launched new legislation on AI, and scholarship probably will spend the coming decades interpreting it. Due to this being a new legislation, this is also something that will take time before can see it's full extent and application. This is something that is quite problematic, since the world right now are screaming for more and more people with knowledge on AI, from it's technical development to legislation and policy. When I was working out a new course that I have taught at Lund University this fall, I therefore had to turn to the very slim literature on it and I actually found two very interesting articles.  The first was written by Stefan Larsson which adressed the theme of legal pace. From this perspective, there is always a tension between law and technology, since latter often develops faster than first. Furthermore, AI often comes with a huge bagage technologically speaking which will give us several problems when trying to regu...

 An old tale is that when locomotion was invented during the 19th century it came with a medical discourse, we’re people were afraid of their inner organs becoming unarranged or that the human mind could not phantom incredible speeds of 40 km/h. Similar aspects can be high lighted with the case of computer games containing graphic violence, leading to outburst of violence all over society. As astonishing that it might seem for people living and partaking in these debates, some decades later society is still here.  And what’s more interesting is all of this fear of AI. For the last months I’ve spent allot of time reading on it from both a technical, social, judicial and ethical dimension. Some authors, such as Sheikh et al argues that this is a system technology which similar to the early cars will transform society. And what has struck me is that  when the car was invented in the 20th century it was both viewers as a threat to people’s health from the danger of travelling...

 Given the last years advances in artificial intelligence, and in particular the so called generative artificial intelligence, the EU have launched a series of regulation towards the implementation of AI in every-day life. Given the wast amount of dystopian ideas on what AI can do with society, this legislation is from a humanities and historical perspective quite interesting. The presentation of the legislation comes in the form of starting with a highlight of how AI can change our society for the better, such as better healthcare access and changing the conditions of manufacturing. However, the legislation also presents some key elements to which the EU have to regulate the use of AI in society. Drawing inspiration from the field of policy analysis, the legislation in itself can be seen as the product of which risks that the decisionmakers think that AI poses to society (Bacchi 2006), so let's start with the areas of legislation.  The policy-document presents three forms of...