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Sep 2. 2021
E-tika podcast – How to regulate digital technologies
Season 2, Episode 4 – Disruptive digital technologies are accompanied with many new opportunities for our society. However, they may also present us with new risks that have not yet been thoroughly explored.
It is therefore questionable how they can be effectively regulated, for example by the state and public institutions. We will therefore look together at how and when it makes sense to regulate new technologies in a sensible way.
In today’s episode you will learn:
- Whether the European Union and Slovakia have confidence in the ability of technology companies to adequately address these risks through self-regulation.
- Who should control the tech giants, the big online platforms, or the overall providers of high-risk AI systems.
- The extent to which government officials need to understand the technologies they are trying to steer.
Our guest is Tomas Jucha. Tomáš is the director of the Department for Digital Policies and International Cooperation at the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic, where he works on setting policies for the Digital Single Market, developing international cooperation on the digital agenda, as well as promoting the digital economy and the data economy. He is working to set up regulation of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence or supercomputing, to set up a responsible and beneficial process of digital transformation of Slovakia for society and individuals, and to develop digital skills. Within this framework, he is interested in creating strategic partnerships between public administration, the private sector, and academia in order to strengthen the innovation ecosystem and professional capacities in Slovakia.
The podcast is in Slovak.
You can read the English summary of the episode here.
About E-tika podcast
Digital and information technologies improve and simplify our lives. But they also raise new societal issues and challenges. We should discriminate between the solutions that are technically possible and that are morally good. Sometimes we release technology and only then we discover its effects on people and society. But that may be too late. In the E-tika podcast we discuss with our guests the social and ethical dimensions of digital technologies.
The E-tika podcast is produced by the multimedia center for contemporary culture, Nástupište 1-12, in cooperation with the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies. The project was supported by public funds by the “Fond na podporu umenia” fund.
Previous episodes
This season
- Episode 1: Living in disinformation bubbles
- Episode 2: How to deal with biased AI
- Episode 3: Transhumanism
Previous season
If you are interested in the topic, you can also listen to episodes of the previous season.
