Name: Watching the watchers: investigating AI, surveillance & the loopholes of Europe’s AI Act
Start: 2025-05-23T16:45:00+0200
End: 2025-05-23T18:00:00+0200

Friday May 23, 2025 4:45pm - 6:00pm CEST

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With the EU’s new AI Act introducing a historic regulatory framework, there are high hopes for greater oversight of artificial intelligence. But significant loopholes remain — especially when it comes to surveillance, policing, and the algorithmic control of workers.

In this session, journalists will share how they’re reporting on AI systems hidden in plain sight — from biometric surveillance to algorithmic monitoring in the workplace. Through these cases, they’ll show how the AI Act opens doors for investigation, while also leaving dangerous blind spots.

Participants will leave the session with practical strategies for reporting on AI and power: how to trace lobbying and regulation, use FOI requests, and uncover the real-world impact of automated systems — even when those in charge prefer to keep them invisible.

Speakers

Nico Schmidt

Investigate Europe

As part of the European journalist team Investigate Europe, Nico Schmidt works together with colleagues from several EU countries. In recent months, he has researched the unequal availability of essential medicines in the EU, the role of AI in the EU election campaign and how Western... Read More →

Clément Pouré

Clém Pouré is a freelance journalist based in Paris who covers the intersection of technology and social issues. They have focused their reporting on surveillance in public spaces, publishing dozens of stories in French investigative outlet Mediapart and other news media. Deepening... Read More →

Friday May 23, 2025 4:45pm - 6:00pm CEST
Z3.02

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