Winner of IViR “Science Fiction & Information Law” writing competition announced

IViR is proud to announce that
Jason Fernandes
is the winner of the 2024 Science Fiction & Information Law writing competition with his story
‘Good Bot’

AI-bots giving legal advice; the impact of a universal law; a vision of a divided society with a periphery of people not profiting from AI; a world in which the first thing to do when answering a phone call, is to ask a check question to make sure you are not talking to a deep fake; a society, where being anonymous in public spaces requires an enormous effort…

We received many great and diverse stories in this years’ IViR “Science Fiction & Information Law” writing competition. The organizing team read and ranked all twenty contributions on writing style, originality and relevance to information law and made a shortlist of seven stories. The shortlisted stories were read by the jury, who decided on three finalists: Jason Fernandes, Andy H. Neale and Leevi Saari.

On 23 May 2024 a festive award ceremony took place at the Computer, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. At this event, the three finalists read excerpts of their stories and started a conversation with the audience about the future of Information Law. After that, Jason Fernandes was announced the winner of this year’s writing competition.

To celebrate the winning story, a virtual gallery will be presented by our partners of the Digital Constitutionalist.

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Organizing Team:

• Natali Helberger, Joost Poort, Kimon Kieslich (University of Amsterdam)
• Yeliz Döker, Deniz Seval (Digital Constitutionalist)

Jury:

• Bernt Hugenholtz (University of Amsterdam)
• Martha Larson (Radboud University)
• Mykola Makhortykh (University of Bern)
• Elif Küzeci (Bahcesehir University)

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