The Source of Unexplored Opportunities or an Unpredictable Risk Factor?

The Collingridge dilemma or ‘dilemma of control’ presents a problem at the intersection law, society and technology. New technologies can still be influenced, whether by regulation policy, in their early stage development, but impact on remains unpredictable. In contrast, once new have become embedded society, implications consequences are clear, development no longer affected. Resulting great challenge pacing – how technological increasingly outpaces creation appropriate laws regulations. My paper examines problematic entanglement relationship Artificial Intelligence (AI) key aspect rule legal certainty. AI is our modern age’s fastest developing most important advancement, driver for global socio-economic encompassing broad spectrum between simple automation autonomous decision-making. It has potential to improve healthcare, transportation, communication contribute climate change mitigation. However, its carries an equal amount risk, including opaque decision-making, gender-based other kinds discrimination, intrusion into private lives misuse criminal purposes. transformative nature technology impacts challenges law policymaking. considers through certainty it may undermine various elements, among others foreseeability, comprehensibility clarity norms. does so elaborating AI’s threat brought opacity (‘black box effect’), complexity, unpredictability partially behaviour, which all impede effective verification compliance with enforcement as well already existing rules international, European national systems. offers insight human-centric risk-based approach towards AI, based consideration ethical questions surrounding topic, help ensure transparency regulatory interventions benefit optimising efficiency protecting safeguards