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.

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.

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.

This section analyses how different knowledge technologies impact people’s creativity. Here creativity is intended as the ability to express themselves in a way that is both truthful to what they feel and believe, as well as the power to experiment with artistic creation.

The Recommendation Algorithms explainer aims to demonstrate how algorithms work on social media platforms. It allows the users to simulate their experience on a social media platform, where their choices shape a personalised feed.

2.1    Equality

Equality is by-and-large considered both a positive aspect of democracy, and a necessary feature for democracy.

This document adopts a psychological and cognitive perspective on misinformation and disinformation, focusing on the interaction between cognitive biases, emotional motivations, social communication goals, and contemporary information environments