Abstract
The European Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act has just been adopted, and different kinds of actors and institutions, so-called regulatory intermediaries (RI), will be crucial in its implementation and enforcement. To increase understanding in IS research about the role of RIs in regulation, we conducted a discipline-agnostic scoping review. We identified five roles RIs can take in the agenda-setting and negotiation, seven roles RIs can take in the implementation, and three roles RIs can take in the monitoring and enforcement phase of a regulatory process. We contribute to IS research on the regulation of information technology by (1) providing a conceptualization of the multifaceted roles RIs can play in regulation and (2) identifying numerous RIs that have already emerged or might emerge in the AI Act context. This provides a useful starting point for future research on RIs in the context of the AI Act. As a practical contribution, we inform the providers and deployers of AI systems about actors that will – but also such that might – take important RI roles in the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the AI Act.
Recommended Citation
Tervo, Erkki; Väyrynen, Karin; and Iivari, Netta, "Increasing understanding about the role of regulatory intermediaries in regulation – a scoping review and implications for the European AI Act" (2024). MCIS 2024 Proceedings. 9.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/mcis2024/9