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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2024
This chapter introduces the main research themes of this book, which explores two current global developments. The first concerns the increased use of algorithmic systems by public authorities in a way that raises significant ethical and legal challenges. The second concerns the erosion of the rule of law and the rise of authoritarian and illiberal tendencies in liberal democracies, including in Europe. While each of these developments is worrying as such, in this book, I argue that the combination of their harms is currently underexamined. By analysing how the former development might reinforce the latter, this book seeks to provide a better understanding of how algorithmic regulation can erode the rule of law and lead to algorithmic rule by law instead. It also evaluates the current EU legal framework which is inadequate to counter this threat, and identifies new pathways forward.
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