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How could the United Nations Global Digital Compact prevent cultural imposition and hermeneutical injustice?
Arthur Gwagwa1, Warmhold Jan Thomas Mollema2
1Ethics Institute, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Abstract:
As the geopolitical superpowers race to regulate the digital realm, their divergent rights-centered, market-driven, and social-control-based approaches require a global compact on digital regulation. If diverse regulatory jurisdictions remain, forms of domination entailed by cultural imposition and hermeneutical injustice related to AI legislation and AI systems will follow. We argue for consensual regulation on shared substantive issues, accompanied by proper standardization and coordination. Failure to attain consensus will fragment global digital regulation, enable regulatory capture by authoritarian powers or bad corporate actors, and deepen the historical geopolitical power asymmetries between the global South and the global North. To prevent an unjust regulatory landscape where the global South's cultural and hermeneutic resources are absent, two principles for the Global Digital Compact to counter these prospective harms are proposed and discussed: (1) "recognitive consensus on key substantive benefits and harms" and (2) "procedural consensus on global coordination and essential standards."
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