Data Processing and Algorithms: A Constitutionally Oriented AI?

Starting from multiple and entangled paradigm shifts prompted by improved artificial intel-ligence (AI) systems, the paper focuses on the fundamental value of human dignity and insu-lates a ‘dehumanising’ process that flows through three channels: data, knowledge and power. It delves into the stance undertaken by the European Union to ‘rehumanise’ these aspects by means of its latest legislative acts (AI Act, DMA, DSA, Data Governance Act, Data Act). It con-cludes with an interdisciplinary proposal of reflection on profiling techniques aimed not only at complementing the approach adopted by the GDPR and DSA, thus introducing collective safe-guards, but also at streamlining the solutions undertaken by the AI Act and completing the DMA kick-in for combination and cross use of data. Thus, the addressed goal is the adoption of a more substantial defence for the sake of human dignity and equality, against a process (profil-ing) that stands at the crossroads of data, knowledge and power and acts as an enabler of intru-sive and pervasive insights on people.