Algorithms vs. Hive Minds: Preserving Democracy's Future in the Age of AI

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Author(s): Rick Searle (IEET, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 14
Source title: The Changing Scope of Technoethics in Contemporary Society
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rocci Luppicini (University of Ottawa, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5094-5.ch015

Keywords: Information Ethics / Information Science Reference / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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From the time of its emergence onto the public scene, the internet has been understood in light of both its dystopian potential for total surveillance and control and its utopian possibilities to enable enhanced forms of freedom. The reality has proven far more complicated with the internet having both helped to weaken institutions and strengthened new forms of authoritarian populism. This chapter argues that these two potentials are deeply interconnected and that the long-term sustainability of democracy requires that we understand and address the connections between our fears and hopes regarding the internet's future.

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