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AI has emerged as a powerful if not the most promising algorithmic tool that has the potential to change our lives – how we shop, hire, get from A to B, and protect ourselves and families.

Predictive analytics making use of AI algorithms, e.g. in fighting crime, promises to make police work more efficient. However, they do come with the risk of preserving existing biases.

In light of the presidential elections 2020 and the scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica the question arises whether social media is actually serving us or rather the need for large amounts of data to train smart algorithms.

The necessity for extensive corpuses of data makes personal data more and more valuable not just for industry but also for research and governments. This raises the question how we want our personal data to be used and what kind of protection mechanisms are necessary. Do we need legislation to protect our personal data?

AI can help us to overcome boundaries, but it is becoming more and more clear that it can also create new boundaries. On a related not we have to ask ourselves what boundaries we need to implement to protect ourselves and the society at large?
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