For decades, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) has served as an inspiration for Hollywood’s latest heroes and bleakest dystopian futures. More recently, AI systems have taken on the role of personal assistants: our phones and computers, cars and planes, homes and cities, they are all powered to an ever increasing extent by AI systems. Even your TV remote will soon understand when you speak to it.
In most of these cases, the instructions given to the AI system are within the confines of human predictability, based on an individual’s consent or what can be deemed to be the data controller’s legitimate interest. The assumption is that AI systems use personal data to make things easier and that individuals should be able to choose how their data is used. Continue reading