Biography

Carlos Saura Garcia is an economist and PhD candidate in the Ethic and Democracy Interuniversity program at Universidad Jaume I of Castellón (Spain). He holds an Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Ethics and Democracy from the Universidad Jaume I of Castellón and Universidad de Valencia.
At Universidad Jaume I of Castellón, he is a researcher in the group EPyD – Practical Ethics and Democracy. His main research focuses on the study of the effects of big data technologies on democracy, particularly delving into three areas: ethical challenges of hyperconnectivity, datafication, algorithmization and digital surveillance, implications of the GAMAM (Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft) in the treatment and use of massive data, and ethical implications of using massive data in democratic contests and democratic systems (mass democracy). He has furthered his doctoral studies at the Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at the Università di Bologna.

As a Visiting Fellow at the STG, he will join the work of the Artificial Intelligence and Democracy Chair.

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