Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Flourishing

Timothy Pitt-Payne KC is a barrister practising from 11KBW chambers in London. He is one of the UK’s leading privacy and information lawyers. He was a pioneer of the emerging law of data protection in the early 2000’s and has since built up an impressive practice at the cutting-edge of the law relating to Freedom of Information and GDPR.

Recently we both presented at a conference organised at the University of Edinburgh on Democracy, Rights, and the Rule of Law in a Data-Driven Society. In this podcast we begin by discussing the law relating to data protection and some of the cases Tim was involved in, including disclosure of information relating to the Iraq war and correspondence between the then Prince Charles and government ministers.

We then discuss the rise of Artificial Intelligence and its relationship to democracy and what we might describe is good governance, particularly the right to a human decision and why that’s important. Music: The Cobblestone by Hans Johnson