In an important election year for the European Parliament, the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) demonstrated its commitment to embracing and disseminating the most recent social science on democratic participation with the 21st STOA Annual Lecture under the theme 'Making Democracy Work for Everyone'.
The High-Level Event on the EP Elections took place between October 23-24 in Brussels, organised by the Directorate-General for Justice of the European Commission.
Critical computing expert Dan McQuillan speaks to Computer Weekly about the top-down imposition of artificial intelligence on society, and how AI is a fundamentally political technology shaped by humanity’s most reactionary tendencies.