There is a growing concern that dark patterns can and will be used to i) impede ethical artificial intelligence systems by hampering the explainability and transparency of such systems (Chromik et al., 2019), and to ii) manipulate users into sharing more **data** with a service than the service needs to operate (Bösch et al., 2016). In this section, we decompose some of the challenges of automatic detection of dark patterns by AI methods.