Introduction to the Special Issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation: The Man and the Machine – When Systems Take Decisions Autonomously

This is the introduction to the Special Issue published in June 2016 in (7) European Journal of Risk Regulation (2), pp. 295-296. The Special Issue was edited by Thomas Burri and Isabelle Wildhaber and includes five articles on "The Man and the Machine: When Systems Take Decisions Autonomously", written by the following authors: Shawn Bayern, Madeleine de Cock Buning, Ugo Pagallo/Massimo Durante, Melinda Florina Lohmann, and Thomas Burri.