Publication | Feb 2024

Vol II. Predictions 2024 on Law and Technology

ATHENS LEGAL TECH

After a long period of exploration and implementation of data protection and data use issues, in 2024, the focus shifts to defining and signifying the relationship between humans and the automated processes of AI technologies that are using huge information and data bases.

Understanding both the complexity and the predictability that legislators and regulators must demonstrate in their regulatory interventions in emerging technologies has the potential to determine to a large extent how they will evolve and how they will evolve society and markets. The need to renegotiate or redefine the basic ethical principles in the use of any technological tool is imperative without overlooking the economic value of the markets that are being formed around these technologies.

There is already a visible demand for experts (legal or IT) to become AI ethics officers especially in critical areas of the public and private sectors. The use of AI for misinformation in electoral processes, the spread of automated processes in public services and the proliferation of chatbots, the possibility of audiovisual content in generative AI
and the redesign of digital platforms and social media will be the main developments. Technology is constantly evolving and we must keep up with it without fearing it but also without abdicating our responsibility for its results. Towards this
This is also the direction in which the regulatory interventions in both the AI Act and the NIS 1 and 2 Directives seem to be moving.”

 

Spiros Tassis- Lawyer, LLM – President, Hellenic Association of Data Protection and Privacy