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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
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Personal Data and User Profiling Computer Scientist Industry SSH Researcher
Legal and regulatory frameworks related to personal data and user profiling

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of how AI, big data and frontier technologies impact rights from the data protection perspective.

Effect of Technology: Law, Privacy, Surveillance
Democratic values: Equality, Fairness, Rule of Law, Transparency, Trust
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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
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AI and Culture Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
Module C: Historical perspective – Trust

This section examines how people develop trust – or distrust – in knowledge technologies. This section considers three main aspects.

Effect of Technology: Disinformation & Misinformation, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Legitimacy
Democratic values: Transparency, Trust
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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
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
The value of democracy

There are both instrumental and intrinsic reasons to value democracy. In short, democracy is valuable instrumentally because 

Effect of Technology: Agency, Culture, Democracy, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Legitimacy, Opacity, Society
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Pluralism, Rule of Law, Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Computer Scientist Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
What are Knowledge Technologies?

Knowledge technologies, as distinct from information technologies, have been defined in the Module C of the social risk toolkit.

Democratic values: Transparency, Trust
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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
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