The continuous interaction between intelligent devices, sensors and people points to the increasing number of data being produced, stored and processed, changing, in various aspects and increasingly, our daily life. This increasing connectivity and symbiotic interaction among humans and intelligent machines brings significant challenges for the rule of law and contemporary ethics. Do machines have morality? What legal liability regime should we adopt for damages arising from increasingly advanced artificial intelligence? Which ethical guideline should we adopt to orient its advancement? In this paper we will discuss the main normative and ethical challenges imposed by the advancement of artificial intelligence.

The promise of hyperconnectivity. Continuous interaction between gadgets, sensors and people points to the rising number of data being produced, stored and processed. On one hand, it may bring benefits to consumers, on the other, growing connectivity, accompanied by data overflow, can also challenge privacy and fundamental rights. This paper approaches some of the challenges faced by the rule of law posed by the advancement of the Internet of Things, which includes a wide variety of actors, most importantly private companies that seek to promote techno-regulation through design, algorithms and market-based contracts.

Recommender systems are now widely deployed across multiple dimensions of the digital reality that increasingly shapes our lives. In doing so, they mould individual thoughts and actions and can affect individual and collective autonomy. In this paper we first discuss how the ubiquitous exercise of ‘soft’ power by recommender systems on individual users presents interference into individual autonomy and its legal dimensions, expressed through collective and individual self-determination, democratic values and institutions, as well as individual human rights and freedoms. We then argue that this exercise of power over individual and collective destinies necessitates regulatory action to establish an appropriate system of checks and balances on recommender systems and their creators. Utilising a bottom-up approach, we look at the fundamental aspects of a recommender system’s design and functioning that shape the impact these algorithms have on individual autonomy. On the basis of this, we identify three key areas where regulation can be targeted in order to empower users and address current power imbalances - (1) algorithmic design, (2) data protection rights, and (3) transparency and oversight. We map the key questions and options for future regulatory action in each of these domains, highlighting the decisions and competing interests that regulators will need to consider. We conclude by discussing the policy implications of this mapping of the debate and the relevance they have for the future of recommender systems regulation.

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Gomes de Faria Guimarães 5 RESUMO: O final do século XX foi marcado por diversos fatores institucionais e políticos nas sociedades latino-americanas. A esse contexto não interventivo materializado pelo Estado, acrescido ao reconhecimento de uma sociedade de base plural, ensejaram por uma nova ordem constitucional. O estudo propõe-se a refletir como as constituições adotadas nesse período histórico enfrentaram tanto os aspectos normativos conflitivos quanto apontaram para novos paradigmas institucionais. Soma-se que a esse universo analítico, há uma longa tradição do pensamento social latino-americano crítico e alternativo. O estudo culmina com o indicativo de uma "epistemologia do sul" de base não eurocêntrica. A investigação objetiva responder se os novos sistemas constitucionais são aptos a atender a essas formulações críticas e autônomas. Independentemente das respostas encontradas, não deve ser esquecido o exame de experiências inovadoras como determinadas jurisdições constitucionais na 1 O presente trabalho é resultado da disciplina eletiva Tópicos Especiais em Direito Constitucional: