IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-05369334.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Rethinking technology regulation in the age of AI risk

Author

Listed:
  • W. Currie

    (Audencia Business School)

  • J. M. Leimeister
  • D. Schlagwein
  • L. Willcocks

Abstract

This paper argues that artificial intelligence exposes the shortcomings of traditional regulatory paradigms, challenging Easterbrook's ‘Law of the Horse' view that general legal principles suffice. AI's opacity, autonomy, and systemic risks demand riskinformed, technology-specific governance.We identify the pacing problem, where innovation outstrips regulatory capacity, and propose a tripartite framework distinguishing functional, structural, and relational risks. Comparative analysis of EU, US, UK, andChinese approaches highlights divergent logics of precaution,market oversight, hybrid flexibility, and state control. Effective governance requires embedding risk into policy design through adaptive, proportionate, and harmonised mechanisms, balancing innovation with accountability. The paper underscores the urgency of global coordination and calls for interdisciplinary IS research to inform anticipatory, participatory, and ethically grounded regulation.

Suggested Citation

  • W. Currie & J. M. Leimeister & D. Schlagwein & L. Willcocks, 2025. "Rethinking technology regulation in the age of AI risk," Post-Print hal-05369334, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05369334
    DOI: 10.1177/02683962251378815
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-05369334v1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05369334. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.