#digitalgovernance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalgovernance, aggregated by home.social.
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The System Won’t Let Me: How AI Turned Bureaucracy Into an Alibi
The most revealing sentence in modern institutional life is not, “You have been denied.” A denial still implies a denier. The more revealing sentence is, “The system won’t let me.” That sentence empties the room while everyone remains inside it. The employee is present. The institution is present. The consequence is present. Only authorship has disappeared. A machine with no legal personality has exercised practical power, while a human being with legal personality claims to possess none. You may hear the sentence after a medical authorization is refused, an account is frozen, a job application is rejected, a benefit is interrupted, or a manuscript is accused. The speaker may be genuinely sympathetic. Sympathy, however, cannot reopen the file, suspend the penalty, or restore what the system has taken. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/19/the-system-wont-let-me-how-ai-turned-bureaucracy-into-an-alibi/
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'Complaints to state regulators about lawyers, financial advisers and estate agents are climbing, according to data compiled by @[email protected] of the @[email protected] in Berlin, who has coined the term #agenticFlooding .'
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Google scholar shows just 4 cites of Microsoft's press release, & none of the EC's "noting" the event.
It's easy to find complaints about the LACK of remedy, but not documenting of what WAS done, nor its effectiveness. Nor utilities.
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Here's a whole lot of lawyers (and me) testifying to British parliament that #AILiability actually after you think about it is not complicated at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3wM...
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance cc @[email protected]
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA www.article19.org/digital-mark...
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Milton Mueller is spot on with his commentary, echoing a tension in #AI #Policy narratives I also keep pointing out in my lectures:
"So where does that lead us? The safety paradigm asks us to slow down and control development via globalized governance. The race narrative urges American companies to stay ahead but also fosters a connection between national security and digital technology development that encourages the government to exclude foreigners from the market and even to review and license American AI development. So which is it – review and license or let her rip? All these issues came to a head in June-July 2026, when the leading AI firms and the U.S. government tried to square a circle by taking both sides."
Political debate about #DigitalTechnologies is in dire need of better differentiation and better #TechJournalism to point out logical inconsistencies and work towards better policies as the current state of unpredictable and contradictory policy actions creates unnecessary risks
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2026/08/01/colliding-ai-governance-narratives/
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Just finished the fascinating John von Neumann biography "The man from the future" by Ananyo Bhattacharyya and it is a great read, tying together several breakthroughs of the 20th century and tracing the origins of ideas and technologies that keep us up at night today, like #AI
The epilogue refers to an essay by John von Neumann whose title question still resonates today: "Can we survive technology?"
A key point for me regarding today's #DigitalGovernance debates is the following paragraph (that oddly enough, is very similar to the core message of Mustafa Suleyman's book "The Coming Wave", see my review for Schweizer Monat here: https://schweizermonat.ch/fuer-risiken-und-nebenwirkungen-fragen-sie-chatgpt/)
"For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration. The only
safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment."
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"AI safety becomes a competitive moat when an incumbent’s existing safety apparatus becomes a legal prerequisite for deployment." and Anthropic have some real policy power connections on board, e.g. @[email protected] #weaponisedInterdependence #digitalGovernance #AIRegulation
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HYBRID 23-24 JUL 13:00 UTC – 1st CTU Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Forum (CAIF 2026)
https://isoc.live/21636The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) hosts a two-day hybrid forum launching the Caribbean AI Task Force Final Report, under the theme 'AI for Caribbean Transformation'. Panels on AI governance, data sovereignty, human-centric AI, women in AI, SIDS development, climate resilience & economic transformation.
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"In European and other Western democracies, there is interest in using Chinese models to avoid total dependence on America. Alas, if countries fear domination by a control-obsessed superpower, they might not want to pin all their hopes on China. Strict rules require Chinese AI firms to uphold national security, social stability and “core socialist values”. Its cyber-regulators test LLMs, bots and agents for political compliance, bombarding them with tricky questions. The effects can be startling. Last year American researchers asked Miiloo, a baby-voiced, AI-enabled doll exported from China, about the status of Taiwan. The island “is an inalienable part of China”, replied the toy, and this “cannot be refuted”.
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/14/when-chinas-open-source-ai-is-a-trap
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Uncertainty is the new normal. This piece explores how technology leaders stay calm, decisive, and trusted when disruption never stops. #TechLeadership #LeadershipInUncertainty #LeadingThroughDisruption #DigitalTransformation #StrategicLeadership #ResilientSystems #TechnologyStrategy #InnovationLeadership #LeadershipIntegrity #ResponsibleTech #DigitalGovernance #PublicSectorTechnology #CloudLeadership #TechCulture #ChangeLeadership #FutureOfWork #CIOLeadership #CTOLeadership #EnterpriseTechnology
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A #dighum #dighum2026 special – I've put all my thoughts about about "hyperscalers" and allegedly US AI in one place.
Featured a bit is @[email protected] of course
#digitalGovernance #DMA #AIRegulation #antitrust #GAFAM #transnationalUtilities
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/06/work...
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#dighum Chowhurdy #digitalGovernance #AIRegulation
In the US IVOs are being mandated by states – independent verification organisations. No clear pathway to economic viability for IVOs, she calls for #AIAuditing to become boring.
Her final slide: Can you prove it?
In q&a she seems to be critiquing plurality in regulation, and justifies it with the google(r's, actually) moat leak, since GAFAM+ then tried to create political moats.
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A nation that protects selling private information and spam has no right to lecture on privacy and digital rights.
#Malaysia #spam #privacy #nationofcriminals #digitalgovernance
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🧭 Corruption research meets digital responsibility.
From 25–27 June, RC Trust and the University of Cologne co-host the 10th Forum of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network in Duisburg.
The organizing team includes members of Nils Köbis’ HUAM group, together with Anna K. Schwickerath from the University of Cologne.
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/corruption-research-meets-digital-responsibility
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Artificial intelligence raises profound moral questions — for all of humanity to answer
#AI #AIEthics #AIGovernance #Tech #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Regulation #Ethics #AIRegulation #DataPrivacy #AlgorithmicBias #ClaudeAI #UN #DigitalGovernance #Morality
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This looks interesting "frontier [is] AI starting to move from ordinary software into the world of controlled strategic capability." www.linkedin.com/pulse/anthro... #AISecurity #AIEthics #AISE26 #digitalGovernance cc @[email protected]
The Anthropic Export-Control I... -
New perspectives on LLM sovereignty from IGF Austria 2026. Read reflections and insights from the discussions in this latest blog post by @spipau :
https://www.ict4d.at/2026/06/reflections-on-llm-sovereignty-at-the-igf-austria-2026/
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Vor über sechs Jahren durfte ich mit Patrick Toggweiler bei #Watson darüber sprechen, weshalb #DigitalGovernance alles andere als langweilig ist und uns alle betrifft (Link im Kommentar). Seither hat das Feld nur an Bedeutung gewonnen, wie uns die Debatten um #DigitaleSouveränität und #SocialMedia zeigen: #DigitalGovernance ist nun fester Bestandteil der politischen Agenda
Morgen ist es dann wieder soweit: am 16. Juni organisiert Swiss Internet & Digital Governance (SIDG) unter dem Patronat des Bundesamt für Kommunikation BAKOM erneut das Swiss IGF
Die einmalige Multistakeholderkonferenz bringt alle Akteure der #Digitalpolitik zusammen um an einem Tag die drängendsten Fragen zu debattieren: von Online-Kinderschutz und #KI-Regulierung hin zu Fragen der #Cybersicherheit und der digitalen #Demokratie
Wer nicht persönlich dabei sein kann, wird morgen auf unserer Webseite die Debatten verfolgen können. Alle Infos zur diesjährigen Ausgabe der Konferenz:
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That blogpost also goes into a conversation with Dennett on philosophy, BTW. And the Weizenbaum aritcle I wrote went into both the present moment and the EU is trying to meet it with #digitalGovernance. 2/2
Human Experience and AI Regula... -
After you upload your data to the cloud, where does it go? The challenge of dual‑use technologies
#Tech #AI #Data #Cloud #DataSovereignty #CyberSecurity #CloudComputing #Privacy #DualUse #DigitalGovernance #BigTech #AWS #Innovation #Policy #Surveillance
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Re @[email protected] + the pope — regulatory evasion via avoiding rather than prioritising #transparency. Fortunately, now illegal in the EU thanks to the #AIAct #digitalGovernance #AIEthics
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tkbweudpy6tvzjqdiza4z3p5/post/3mmqjjnowkc2d -
Every story on DW now ends with a “don’t let the algorithm hide the news” appeal. #google #digitalgovernance #journalism #aiethics
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Do we collaborate with what we design? tl;dr : no slightly longer tl;dr : AI systems are manifestations of capital, not labour onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #futureOfWork #FoW #AIEthics #digitalGovernance
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Empathy is not a soft extra. It is a warning system.
It tells us where a process is failing before the dashboard does, where people are being lost between forms, platforms, policies, and polite automated replies.
#CivicIntelligence #Empathy #SystemsThinking #DigitalGovernance #HumanCenteredDesign #AlgorithmicGovernance #PublicInterestTech #Ethics #REDefine
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"It is time to demand that our courts open the black boxes of algorithmic decision-making. We need to shift the burden of proof to the party that actually has access to the algorithm, and design procedural rules for effective systematic redress." #AIEthics #AIAct #AILaw #digitalGovernance #RuleOfLaw
I took an algorithm to court i...