The EU - among others - is busily legislating adequate protection for citizens’ privacy and data protection in the face of the AI revolution. The resulting legal frameworks are thus at the center of heated discussions as to how privacy and data protection might be effectively protected in the face of a society increasingly defined by the development and deployment of AI. Beyond these discussions, however, a more ominous idea appears: that AI might pose an existential threat, or a set of existential threats, to the ideas of privacy and data protection - let alone their effective protection. The nature of such threats, and what might be done about them, are the core topics to be discussed in this panel.
