Artificial intelligence, big data and new rights

Abstract

The present is the result of old and new reorganizations and insights. As studies of algorithms, neural networks, and artificial intelligence multiply, speeds change and paradigm shifts occur. With the big data revolution, in fact, the logical-deductive paradigm gives way to the statistical approach which, among various purposes, has the fundamental one to develop predictive and selective models, meanwhile grouping objects into classes. Beyond the indisputable advantages linked to the possibility of processing a large amount of data without a particular expenditure of time and energy, today’s technical-scientific development raises many serious questions. These concern, above all, the sphere of rights, which are enriched with new contours and meanings, to the point of protecting almost unprecedented instances. Emblematic is what happens about the right to privacy, which today evolves into the right to protect personal data. Precisely those data that are now the first engine of the contemporary economy.