Table 1 Themes, societal challenges (Chhillar and Aguilera, 2022) and data sharing: Merit users (‘Who’) and knowledge (‘What’).

From: General theory of data, artificial intelligence and governance

  

Data Sharing: Who and What

Theme

Societal challenge

Merit User

Knowledge creation

Data capitalism and privacy risk

Power imbalance

Non-rival SMEs and start ups

Research/academic community and universities

Innovative functionalities

• Narrower deployment gap

• Redistribution of power

• Innovation

  

Anti-trust authorities

Market structure measures

Competition laws

• Antitrust policies

• Redistribution of information asymmetries

• More competitive markets

 

Privacy

Privacy-protecting courts

Transparency on data holders´ respect for privacy

• Black box transparency

• Trust

• Algorithmic transparency

Bias and opacity

Algorithmic bias

Human- AI algorithmic auditors

Technical processes

• Trust

• Algorithmic transparency

 

Opacity of internal processing

Human- AI algorithmic auditors

Technical processes

• Trust

• Algorithmic transparency

Human trust

AI aversion

PDS developers

Consumers’ associations

Innovative functionalities for consumers’ utility maximisation

• Trust and digital literacy

• More competitive markets

• Redistribution of power

• Consumer surplus

AI in the workplace

Power asymmetries and algorithmic agency

Labour inspectors

Working conditions

• Trust

• Algorithmic transparency

• Redistribution

Organisational algorithmic decision making

New occupational responsibilities

Research/academic community and universities

Education programmes

• Trust and digital literacy

• More competitive markets

• Redistribution of power

• Consumers‘ surplus

• Critical thinking

• New theories

Economic value creation

Imbalanced property rights division

Central banks

Research community

SMEs and Start ups

Innovative functionalities

• Economic forecasting

• New theories

• Innovation

• Redistribution of power