Faculty of Law

The 10th meeting of the Law Seminars organized by our Law School held at the meeting hall on 7th floor of Block C at North Campus, on April 16, 2024.

Res. Assist. Ayşenur yazıcılar, a member of the Constitutional Law Department, made a presentation titled  "Artifical Intelligence and Democracy"  During her presentation,  Ms. Yazıcılar discussed three topics: the place of artificial intelligence in democracies, its impact on the democratic participation of citizens and its impact on the basis of equality.

After shedding light on the conceptual limits of artificial intelligence, she exemplified the areas where it is used in social life. Then she examined participation in cyberspace from a democratic perspective. In this sense, she discussed the negative factors related to legal limitations and technical possibilities applied in cyberspace. Finally, to shed light on the impact of the technical quality of machine learning on the basis of equality, she put her finger on the the artificial intelligence programs used by police forces in the USA in search-stop activities whose learned data is based on existing searches where racial disparities or socio-economic inequalities occur and as a result, people of certain races are stopped and searched more often.

The seminar ended after the Q&A session.