This project will create a framework for studying the co-production of artificial intelligence and politics, mainly through the new AI Act. Based in science and technology studies (STS) and critical data studies we will focus on imagined futures, risk(s to rights), and values in standardization and infrastructure. We will create a conceptual framework, which enable critical analysing of ways in which fundamental rights and values change as they become mediated through new sites, institutions, markets, practices and technologies. Our approach will study these changes to classical works in STS on The Modern Constitution, under a general heading of digital constitutionalism.
What happens when political values and legal principles are increasingly mediated through algorithms, risk models, and technical standards? One of this year’s CAS projects, Acting on AI: Digital Constitutionalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, examines how the EU’s AI Act and related policies are redefining the relationship between technology, law, and politics – and the consequences for fundamental rights.