Artificial intelligence and democracy: Equality, elections, and autocratic competition (once more)

01/23/24 • 32 min

In this episode, we focus on three further contact areas between AI and democracy at different analytical levels:At the group level, AI impacts equality of rights among different groups of people in society.At the institutional level, AI impacts the perception of elections as a fair and open mechanism for channeling and managing political conflict.At the systems level, AI impacts competition between democratic and autocratic systems of government.
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Artificial intelligence and self-rule (once more)

One tenet of democracy is that governments should be chosen by those they will serve. Such self-rule is a normative idea about legitimizing the temporal power of rulers over the ruled and a practical idea that distributed decision making is superior to other more centralized forms of decision making or rule by experts. AI impacts both the ability of people to achieve self-rule and the perceived superiority of distributed decision making over expert rule in complex social systems, highlighting potential limits to self-rule in several ways.
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