
ISSN: 2959-3077 (Print)
ISSN: 2959-3085 (Online)
CODEN: LETAA8
CiteScore 2025: 1.3
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Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven genomic research challenges prevailing consent frameworks by enabling iterative data reuse, cumulative inference, and intergenerational risk that static, one-off consent cannot adequately address. This article applies the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) and the principle of Respect for Persons (PRP), interpreted through relational autonomy, to examine how regulatory categories such as broad consent, minimal risk, and compatible purpose are socially constructed, institutionally stabilised, and ethically consequential. In this context, consent rules operate not merely as mechanisms of authorisation but as governance tools that allocate responsibility, shape expectations, and determine the legitimacy of downstream data use over time. Through a comparative analysis of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the U.S. Common Rule (U.S.C.R.), the article demonstrates how categorical exemptions and procedural consent under the U.S.C.R. fail to ensure sustained participant protection in genomic AI, while the GDPR embeds consent within a cumulative legality architecture grounded in Articles 5, 6(4), 9, and 89(1), with Recital 33 guiding interpretation. The article argues that dynamic consent does not constitute an independent lawful basis under the GDPR but may offer a doctrinally compatible and ethically robust governance mechanism capable of operationalising existing GDPR obligations. It may do so by enabling iterative engagement, granular permissions, and accountability across evolving research contexts, particularly in dual-regulation environments such as Qatar, where GDPR-style frameworks coexist with U.S.C.R. requirements.
The development of generative AI relies on large-scale corpora that often contain personal information, making anonymization central to data-protection compliance. In comparative law, anonymization generally determines whether personal-information protection rules apply, with the key inquiry turning on identifiability and the reasonable likelihood of re-identification. In generative AI, however, parameterized learning, dynamic content generation, and long-term interaction have transformed anonymization from a static processing outcome into a probabilistic and context-dependent risk condition. This creates three main challenges: a mismatch between formal anonymization and substantive risk, which may lead to identity disclosure or sensitive-attribute inference; the erosion of anonymization’s function as a regulatory boundary, which may enable regulatory circumvention and undermine public trust; and uncertainty over responsibility allocation, which may hinder risk prevention, enforcement, and remedies. Existing rules offer only limited responses to residual risks, jointly produced risks, and dynamic changes in model operation. Accordingly, anonymization should be reconceptualized as an ongoing governance framework based on context-sensitive identifiability standards, tiered legal consequences, responsibility allocation, and lifecycle oversight, thereby reconciling personal-information protection with AI development.
The article presents two parallel Polish models of the protection of life in the prenatal phase under criminal law. This differentiation is due to the permissibility of the in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure and modern diagnostic possibilities. When fetal impairment is detected, the statutes under analysis provide for different consequences depending on the origin of the embryo. The article presents several ways of resolving the axiological disharmony, indicating the reinstatement of the possibility of the termination of pregnancy on the grounds of fetal impairment as the most appropriate.
This article analyzes the paradoxical phenomenon in which students extensively utilize generative AI for academic work while sincerely maintaining that their submissions are honest and original. Beyond simple confusion or concealment, it introduces artificial integrity: a techno-ethical dilemma arising from technologically scaffolded knowing self-deception. Drawing from dramaturgical analysis, narrative identity theory, and recent empirical research, a framework is developed that reveals how integrity is socially performed and stabilized within ambiguous institutional ecologies. The analysis demonstrates that students, while retaining awareness of AI’s core intellectual labor, sustain credible honesty claims through epistemic layering, manifesting in strategic disclosure, resistance to transparency, and persistent anxiety. This condition is co-produced by institutional designs that prioritize polished outputs over visible process, creating a rationalization space where traditional legal-ethical frameworks for authorship and accountability break down. Rather than policing AI use, this article argues institutions must develop clear, legally sound AI-use policies and redesign assessment to mandate transparency, through methods such as process portfolios, reflective annotations, and structured disclosure protocols, thereby resetting the academic stage to reward visible cognition over performative authorship.