AI-bots giving legal advice; the impact of a universal law; a vision of a divided society with a periphery of people not profiting from AI; a world in which the first thing to do when answering a phone call, is to ask a check question to make sure you are not talking to a deep fake; a society, where being anonymous in public spaces requires an enormous effort…
We received many great and diverse stories in this years’ IViR “Science Fiction & Information Law” writing competition. The organizing team has read and ranked all twenty contributions on writing style, originality and relevance to information law and made a shortlist of seven stories. The shortlisted stories were read by the jury, who decided on three finalists and one winner.
On 23 May a festive award ceremony will take place at the Computer, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. (Registration for the conference is still possible). At this event, the three finalists will read excerpts of their stories and kickstart a conversation with the audience about the future of Information Law. After that, the winner of the third IViR “Science Fiction & Information Law” writing competition will be announced. To celebrate the winning story, a virtual gallery will be presented by our partners of the Digital Constitutionalist.
The three stories will be published at the IViR website shortly after the event and on the Digital Constitutionalist’s sci-fi blog.
Finalists, in alphabetical order:
- Jason Fernandes
- Andy H. Neale
- Leevi Saari
Organizing Team:
- Natali Helberger, Joost Poort, Kimon Kieslich (University of Amsterdam)
- Yeliz Döker, Deniz Seval (Digital Constitutionalist)
Jury:
- Bernt Hugenholtz (University of Amsterdam)
- Martha Larson (Radboud University)
- Mykola Makhortykh (University of Bern)
- Elif Küzeci (Bahcesehir University)