Artificial Intelligence and Rule of Law: The Age of Legal Tech and Digital Governance in a Fractured Digital World

This book explores the most pressing challenges in AI technologies and practices, the entanglements of the ’AI and law’ and ’AI and the rule of law’ nexus and digitally transformed fracturing world that is shaped by digital governance and digital ethics underpinned by responsible AI, and AI4People viewpoints. It draws attention to unraveling the legal labyrinth of regulatory frameworks on AI, the rule of law, digital human rights, digital democracy, and how these AI regulations intervene in the digital transformation of LegalTech across the world. It emphasizes the need for a robust regulatory framework to mitigate the risks of AI and overcome legal hurdles. The book scrutinizes the issues, risks, and opportunities of AI to uphold the rule of law, promote human rights, improve access to justice, protect people’s rights and fundamental freedoms, and strengthen the inclusive society based on the rule of law. Furthermore, the book delves into the challenges and risks of AI, protection of privacy, personal data, and the GDPR. The book sheds light on the impact of AI use on the development of the rule of law and digital transformation in legal systems by considering the digitalization of justice systems, the impact of AI on safeguarding human rights, AI ethics, AI governance, AI use in justice systems, computational jurisprudence, Generative AI, the age of LegalTech, responsible, humancentric, explainable, and trustworthy AI technologies, AI interdisciplinarity, procedural fetishism and substantive due process in AI governance and digital constitutionalism, the right to be forgotten, the legal feasibility of machine unlearning methods, the EU AI Act, regulatory framework, digital vulnerability, bio-technological ethics, and post-anthropocentrism.

Armando Aliu is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Max Planck Alumni Association, and Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).