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Spiekermann, Kai, Slavny, Adam, Axelsen, David and Lawford-Smith, Holly (2021) Big data justice : a case for regulating the global information commons. Journal of Politics, 83 (2). pp. 577-588. doi:10.1086/709862 ISSN 0022-3816.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/709862
Abstract
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) challenges political theorists to think about data ownership and policymakers to regulate the collection and use of public data. AI producers benefit from free public data for training their systems while retaining the profits. We argue against the view that the use of public data must be free. The proponents of unconstrained use point out that consuming data does not diminish its quality and that information is in ample supply. Therefore, they suggest, publicly available data should be free. We present two objections. First, allowing free data use promotes unwanted inequality. Second, contributors of information did not and could not anticipate that their contribution would be used to train AI systems. Our argument implies that managing the ‘global information commons’ and charging for extensive data use is permissible and desirable. We discuss policy implications and propose a progressive data use tax to counter the inequality arising.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Big data, Artificial intelligence, Digital media, Big data -- Political aspects, Data protection -- Law and legislation, Policy sciences | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Politics | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago | ||||||
ISSN: | 0022-3816 | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 83 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 577-588 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/709862 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Re-use Statement: | © 2020 by Authors. Accepted for publication to Journal of Politics on 30/10/2019 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 January 2020 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 February 2021 | ||||||
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