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Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Computer Scientist SSH Researcher
Experiments on critical thinking, autonomy and AI

The experimental component of Module A aims to further characterise internet users' behaviours when faced with online choices potentially undermining their autonomy: how people evaluate AI-generated information and/or content selected through AI-based algorithms, and how people are influenced by

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Polarisation
Democratic values: Accountability, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
How should tech be regulated?

Companies have significant influence over public discourse in online platforms, necessitating that the algorithms that shape these online platforms should be regulated and constrained to sufficiently consider the public interest (Susskind, 2018: 350).

Effect of Technology: Concentration of Power, Legitimacy
Democratic values: Accountability, Equality, Fairness, Trust
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Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Public Authority SSH Researcher
KT4D: AI, free will and autonomy - Introduction & Literature review

The source, which comprises excerpts from Module A of the KT4D Social Risk Toolkit, explores the complex challenge presented by artificial intelligence to individual autonomy and free will within modern society.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Individuals, Polarisation
Democratic values: Accountability, Pluralism, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
Risks for the use of personal data and user profiling

The current EU approach to AI regulation faces several challenges and limitations that need to be addressed.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Opacity, Polarisation, Privacy, Society, Surveillance
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Computer Scientist Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner 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: 

(1) democracy can assist us in producing laws and policies that protect the rights and interests of citizens, 

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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