Os estudos aprofundados sobre a temática mostram que os direitos do consumidor, bem como os direitos constitucionais da autonomia da vontade, da privacidade e da intimidade vêm sendo violados por sistemas autônomos de inteligência artificial, que por meio da manipulação dos dados pessoais e sensíveis cria padrões, que podem sugerir a tomada de decisões ao consumidor. Procura-se, dessa forma, responder à seguinte pergunta: como a inteligência artificial é capaz de vulnerar a autonomia do consumidor em seu poder de escolha, a partir do uso e manipulação de dados pessoais, sob a perspectiva de salvaguarda destes direitos humanos? Em decorrência do objetivo principal, elaboraram-se os seguintes objetivos específicos: a) pesquisar a sociedade de consumo e a vulnerabilidade do consumidor, buscando analisar a evolução dos conceitos no tempo e espaço. b) analisar as novas tecnologias e a inteligência artificial, pesquisando a evolução tecnológica e as suas atuais aplicações. c) validar a vulnerabilidade da autonomia do consumidor frente às relações de consumo envolvendo a inteligência artificial. Conclui-se pela necessidade de salvaguardar os direitos constitucionais e infraconstitucionais do consumidor nessa relação jurídica virtual, demonstrando que o direito à explicação ou à transparência, mesmo que amparados no CDC, necessitam de uma nova abordagem paradigmática diante dos atuais sistemas de inteligência artificial.

Democracy is based on the belief that the media gets the attention of voters. But is this plausible in an age of multiplying media, disillusionment with the political system and time-scarcity? This book addresses this question, and charts experiences of 'public connection'.

Em um mundo em constante evolução tecnológica, as implicações da Inteligência Artificial (IA) nas relações de consumo se tornam um foco de crescente interesse e importante debate. Este livro, idealizado pelo IBRAC – Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos de Concorrência, Consumo e Comércio Internacional, reúne uma série de ensaios e análises que abordam os desafios e oportunidades desta intersecção entre a IA e o Direito do Consumidor. Desde os conceitos iniciais e o estágio atual de utilização da IA no Brasil e no mundo, passando pela regulamentação tanto no cenário nacional quanto internacional, o livro explora amplamente as oportunidades e riscos desse universo, como a responsabilidade civil ligada aos sistemas de IA, a aplicação das regras já em vigência do Código de Defesa do Consumidor nesse contexto, as questões de governança e até mesmo como a IA pode auxiliar na definição e implementação de políticas públicas relacionadas ao direito do consumidor.

A obra reúne estudos dos membros do Comitê de Relações de Consumo do IBRAC que analisam os principais temas das relações de consumo no Brasil após 30 anos da promulgação do Código de Defesa do Consumidor.

Rosalind Brodsky, the alter ego of artist Suzanne Treister, is a delusional time traveller who believes herself to be working at the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality in the twenty-first century. HEXEN 2039 charts Brodsky's scientific research in the development of new mind control technologies through a series of drawings, diagrams and photographs. By turns baroque, challenging, comic, elegant, mysterious and intriguing, these works uncover or construct links between conspiracy theories, occult groups, Chernobyl, witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing, and behaviour control experiments of the US Army and its Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (PSYOP), in light of alarming new research in contemporary neuroscience. In addition, an essay by Richard Grayson examines Treister's practice in detail. As a whole, this fascinating and complex body of work questions the way we look at history and the future, science, technology, politics, and narrative. A rich and engaging book, HEXEN 2039 is part artist's monograph and part chilling premonition of the future, echoing the world of graphic novels and computer games. The book also includes a 62 x 53 cm poster.

Black Seeds (Nigella sativa) is a comprehensive resource covering all aspects of this medicinal plant, well-known for its positive effects in many human ailments. It has been used to promote health and fight diseases, and has been found to have antioxidant, antihypertensive, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic effects. It has also been known to have antimicrobial, anticancer, neuro-protectant, cardio protectant, immunomodulator, hepatic protectant characteristics. Thymoquinone, the active compound of the plant, also exhibits these protective qualities against many disorders. This book summarizes the effect of this plant on all the organ systems of the body. Black Seeds (Nigella sativa) is a comprehensive resource for researchers working in pharmacology, food chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry, both in industry and academia. Contains global coverage of the latest research on the pharmacological properties of Nigella sativa Includes the medicinal effects of Nigella sativa: antioxidant, antihypertensive, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer effects among many others Features many figures with mechanisms and tables to illustrate key details about Nigella sativa

Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented whatis arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of theproject of European unification and of parallel developmentstowards a politically integrated world society. In developing hiskey concepts of the transnationalisation of democracy and theconstitutionalisation of international law, Habermas offers themain players in the struggles over the fate of the European Union(the politicians, the political parties and the publics of themember states) a way out of the current economic and politicalcrisis, should they choose to follow it. In the title essay Habermas addresses the challenges and threatsposed by the current banking and public debt crisis in the Eurozonefor European unification. He is harshly critical of theincrementalist, technocratic policies advocated by the Germangovernment in particular, which are being imposed at the expense ofthe populations of the economically weaker, crisis-strickencountries and are undermining solidarity between the member states.He argues that only if the technocratic approach is replaced by adeeper democratization of the European institutions can theEuropean Union fulfil its promise as a model for how rampant marketcapitalism can once again be brought under political control at thesupranational level. This volume reflects the impressive scope of Habermas?s recentwritings on European themes, including theoretical treatments ofthe complex legal and political issues at stake, interventions oncurrent affairs, and reflections on the lives and works of majorEuropean philosophers and intellectuals. Together the essaysprovide eloquent testimony to the enduring relevance of the work ofone of the most influential and far-sighted public intellectuals inthe world today, and are essential reading for all philosophers,legal scholars and social scientists interested in European andglobal issues.