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FUTURES OF DEMOCRACY

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FUTURES OF DEMOCRACY

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AI and Democracy

2040 - NEGATIVE

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AI and Democracy

2040 - NEGATIVE

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AI and Democracy

2040 - NEGATIVE

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What can we do to make this less likely?

  • Pluralistic oversight of all government surveillance
    • By democracy, civil society & experts
    • Strong counter surveillance by civil society
  • Limit the types of data being collected and how its being used
  • Data collected stored in a "data fund"
    • That government only gets access through controlled means
  • Strong private ownership of personal data
    • That citizens have the right to opt out

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What can we do to make this less likely?

  • Setup social and legal goals in law
  • Use more trustless methods like Bitcoin for verification
  • Establish way to prove provenance to verify who you are and the content
  • Greater support for journalism and open source intelligence
  • Develop AI to fight fake news

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AI and Democracy

2040 - POSITIVE

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AI and Democracy

2040 - POSITIVE

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AI and Democracy

2040 - POSITIVE

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What can we do to make this more likely?

  • Move democracy and decision making closer to citizens
  • Scaling up methods like deliberative polling
  • Introduce AI to assist with managing the policy making process
  • Encourage government to release all data and analysis in real-time
  • Open access to government sensor network
  • Consolidating government services in easy interface

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What can we do to make this more likely?

  • Government and social support for "positive" platforms
  • Create more open datasets to help understand different cultures
  • More support for nonprofit and open source solutions and AI weights
  • Move part of the AI focus on cultivating connections and community not only efficiency
  • Reexamine AI business models that have incentives that are bad for society

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What can we do to make this more likely?

  • Democratic goals and oversight
  • Make sure productivity gains go to workers
  • More support for cooperatives
  • New forms of company registrations/orgs
  • Keep levels of corruption in check

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