Balancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systems

The question of the concrete design of a fair and efficient governance framework to ensure responsible technology development and implementation concerns not only high-risk artificial intelligence systems. Everyday applications with a limited ability to inflict harm are also addressed. This article...

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Main Authors: Michael Gille, Marina Tropmann-Frick, Thorben Schomacker
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Language:English
Published: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2024-09-01
Series:Internet Policy Review
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Online Access:https://policyreview.info/node/1797
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description The question of the concrete design of a fair and efficient governance framework to ensure responsible technology development and implementation concerns not only high-risk artificial intelligence systems. Everyday applications with a limited ability to inflict harm are also addressed. This article examines the European Union's approach to regulating these non-high-risk systems. We focus on the governance model for these systems established by the Artificial Intelligence Act. Based on a doctrinal legal reconstruction of the rules for codes of conduct and considering the European Union's stated goal of achieving a market-oriented balance between innovation, fundamental rights, and public interest, we explore our topic from three different perspectives: an analysis of specific regulatory components of the governance mechanism is followed by a reflection on ethics and trustworthiness implications of the EU´s approach and concluded by an analysis of a case study from an NLP-based, language-simplifying artificial intelligence application for assistive purposes.
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spelling doaj-art-3db03b3e4e64486d937e6d47317be8052025-08-20T03:16:07ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752024-09-0113310.14763/2024.3.1797Balancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systemsMichael Gille0Marina Tropmann-Frick1Thorben Schomacker2Hamburg University of Applied SciencesHamburg University of Applied SciencesHamburg University of Applied SciencesThe question of the concrete design of a fair and efficient governance framework to ensure responsible technology development and implementation concerns not only high-risk artificial intelligence systems. Everyday applications with a limited ability to inflict harm are also addressed. This article examines the European Union's approach to regulating these non-high-risk systems. We focus on the governance model for these systems established by the Artificial Intelligence Act. Based on a doctrinal legal reconstruction of the rules for codes of conduct and considering the European Union's stated goal of achieving a market-oriented balance between innovation, fundamental rights, and public interest, we explore our topic from three different perspectives: an analysis of specific regulatory components of the governance mechanism is followed by a reflection on ethics and trustworthiness implications of the EU´s approach and concluded by an analysis of a case study from an NLP-based, language-simplifying artificial intelligence application for assistive purposes.https://policyreview.info/node/1797Artificial intelligenceCo-regulationSelf-regulationCodes of conductAI Act
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Balancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systems
Internet Policy Review
Artificial intelligence
Co-regulation
Self-regulation
Codes of conduct
AI Act
title Balancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systems
title_full Balancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systems
title_fullStr Balancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systems
title_full_unstemmed Balancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systems
title_short Balancing public interest, fundamental rights, and innovation: The EU’s governance model for non-high-risk AI systems
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topic Artificial intelligence
Co-regulation
Self-regulation
Codes of conduct
AI Act
url https://policyreview.info/node/1797
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