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The promise of AI is real, but so are its consequences, such as bias, opacity, and concentration of power to a handful of tech elites. From the classroom to the public sector, algorithms are reshaping childhoods and restructuring economies, and thereby quietly eroding the rules of democratic governance. Progressives must stop treating regulation as a burden and start using it as a tool: because only strong democratic oversight can ensure that AI serves people, not profit.

• The AI bubble is already here by Leevi Saari

• From attention to attachment by Aida Bikic

• Innovating peace processes in the digital age: the role of AI by Bernardo Venturi and Emiliano Alessandri

• A post-Trump world of AI and democracy with Europe in the lead by Paul Nemitz

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It should instead explore which supporting measures are needed, while anticipating the unintended consequences of minimum age laws, such as exclusion, privacy risks, regulatory fragmentation, and, most crucially, democratic engagement. 

Upcoming events

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📅  19 JUNE

📍 PORTO, PORTUGAL

UPCOMING EVENT

Social Europe is our target

Join us in Porto or online at the event “Social Europe is our target” to put social rights back at the heart of the EU!

This high-level conference will feature contributions from European Commission Executive Vice-President Roxana Minzatu, FEPS President Nicolas Schmit, PS Secretary General José Luís Carneiro, MEPs Estelle Ceulemans and Gabriele Bischoff, former EU Commissioner Elisa Ferreira and former Eurogroup President Mário Centeno, as well as other policymakers and experts, to mark the 5th anniversary of the Porto Social Summit – Register now!

Past events

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• The Pact for The Mediterranean
• Energy justice and the green transition
• Externalisation and securisation in EU migration policy and implications for the Mediterranean countries
• Democratic resilience in North Africa

By FEPS, organised in cooperation with the S&D Group, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Cyprus, Eteron, Fundación Avanza, Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale, Fondation Jean Jaurès and EDEK.

• Reviewed existing bilateral labour migration agreements between European and African countries and explored what they mean for expanding legal pathways
• Examined the tensions between Europe’s migration priorities and Africa’s ambitions for continental integration and free movement

For all this, understanding the territorial realities and working with local and regional actors will be key. This first event of FEPS’ “Housing in practice” series focused more particularly on the situation in Luxembourg. 

• A multipolar Mediterranean: an opportunity for the EU? by Eduard Soler i Lecha
• A new security framework for the Mediterranean and the Gulfby Trita Parsi
• Europe and Israel: a strategic watershed moment by Daniel Levy
• An integrated Mediterranean energy system to weather disruption by Laury Haytayan
• A pact in times of war(s) by Rim Filali Meknassi

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The sense of Eastern discomfort the progressive family noted after the last EU elections is slowly transforming into the realisation of a disaster… But is the situation really that bad? Read more.

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