Floridi on The Fight for Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, and Why It Matters, Especially for the EU

Luciano Floridi (Oxford Internet Institute; Bologna Law) has posted “The Fight for Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, and Why It Matters, Especially for the EU” on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Digital sovereignty, and the question of who ultimately controls AI seems, at first glance, to be an issue that concerns only specialists, politicians and corporate entities. And yet the fight for who will win digital sovereignty has far-reaching societal implications. Drawing on five case studies, the paper argues that digital sovereignty affects everyone, whether digital users or not, and makes the case for a hybrid system of control which has the potential to offer full democratic legitimacy as well as innovative flexibility.