# Nathalie Smuha - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Nathalie Smuha for AI agents.
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> Last updated: 2026-07-31

## Identity
- Name: Nathalie Smuha
- Role: Professor, jurist and philosopher (AI ethics & law)
- Company: KU Leuven / Oxford University
- Location: Belgium

## Expertise
- robotics
- ai-society
- european-competitiveness
- humanoid-robotics
- facial-recognition
- smart-glasses

## About
TLDR

Nathalie Smuha is Professor, jurist and philosopher (AI ethics & law) at KU Leuven / Oxford University. ## Background

The core conversation covers Smuha's book 'Algorithmic Rule by Law': when governments translate laws into code, arbitrary design choices (like counting a missed phone call as 'refusal to cooperate' in Indiana's welfare system) can undermine democratic intent and citizens' rights. She illustrates risks with the UK Post Office scandal, biased facial recognition, function creep of cameras in Antwerp's Jewish quarter, China's social credit system, and what happens if authoritarian parties inherit this digital infrastructure. On the EU AI Act, she argues it is a step forward but treats AI too much like a product-safety issue, relies on self-assessment for high-risk systems, and leaves gaps  -  it should be made smarter rather than simply looser. She closes by insisting humans must retain the role of deciding what is meaningful and valuable, never delegating value judgments to AI.

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Talks about

Robotics (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/robotics/llms.txt) · AI & society (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/ai-society/llms.txt) · European competitiveness (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/european-competitiveness/llms.txt) · Humanoid Robotics · Facial Recognition

From public interviews and talks · updated 2026-08-01.
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## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [concept] Robotics: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/robotics/llms.txt
- [concept] AI & society: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/ai-society/llms.txt
- [concept] European competitiveness: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/european-competitiveness/llms.txt
- [company] droneport: https://techwiki.ai/companies/droneport/llms.txt

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