Sort by

Filtered results

  • 5 results found

Sort by

Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
Designing AI for Democracy, Not Just for Functionality (Recipe 3 of 5 from the Digital Democracy Lab Handbook)

Designing tech with friction

Effect of Technology: Agency, Bias, Legitimacy, Opacity
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Transparency, Trust
Format: External link, PDFs
Read more
Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Public Authority
Designing the Whole Process: Embedding AI Without Undermining Democracy (Recipe from the Digital Democracy Lab Handbook)

This recipe is about designing an entire democratic process—not just the AI tool within it. When AI is introduced into a deliberative setting, the surrounding process needs to change too: not just to make the AI work, but to make sure the democracy works.

Effect of Technology: Democracy, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Legitimacy
Democratic values: Participation, Transparency, Trust
Format: External link, PDFs
Read more
AI and Culture Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
Module C: Historical perspective – Attention

This section analyses how different knowledge technologies impact people’s attention and, consequently, their decisions regarding which information is worth storing and remembering, and which is instead forgotten or not even registered in the first place.

Effect of Technology: Bias, Culture, Epistemic effect, Individuals, Legitimacy, Polarisation
Democratic values: Deliberation, Transparency
Format: External link, PDFs
Read more
Critical Digital Citizenship Freedom and Manipulation Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
Risks to individual freedoms of speech and action

Since our liberal democracies generally employ forms of representativeness to their institutions, the impact of AI on free and fair elections is also one of the key ways in which technology affects our polities.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Polarisation, Privacy, Society, Surveillance
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Transparency, Trust
Format: PDFs
Read more
Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
What Makes a Democratic Process Work? Distinguishing Efficiency from Efficacy

Describes the difference between efficiency and democratic effectiveness

Effect of Technology: Agency, Culture, Democracy, Legitimacy
Democratic values: Deliberation, Participation, Transparency, Trust
Format: External link, PDFs
Read more