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AI and Awareness Ethics and Trust in AI Public Authority SSH Researcher
Bibliography of KT4D Social Risk Toolkit Module B: AI, trust and awareness

Module B focuses on the risks AI poses for social fairness and trust: how the use of AI-based tools can generate inequality or dishonesty, particularly when human productions differ in nature (e.g. creative vs.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Individuals, Legitimacy, Society
Democratic values: Equality, Fairness, Trust
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AI and Awareness Public Authority SSH Researcher
Consequences of AI-based technologies for the quality of public deliberation

This document examines how AI-driven content curation and recommendation systems affect the quality of public deliberation.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Individuals, Legitimacy, Society
Democratic values: Equality, Fairness, Trust
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AI and Awareness AI and Culture Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Public Authority SSH Researcher
Deepfake Explainer

This interactive explainer introduces the concept of AI-generated deepfake images and provides clues to help the user understand how and why they are created.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Culture, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Law, Legitimacy, Opacity, Polarisation, Privacy, Society
Democratic values: Accountability, Pluralism, Rule of Law, Trust
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Algorithmic Accountability Critical Digital Citizenship Freedom and Manipulation Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
Recommendation Algorithms Explainer

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.

Effect of Technology: Autonomy, Bias, Concentration of Power, Culture, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Legitimacy, Opacity, Polarisation, Society, Surveillance
Democratic values: Accountability, Fairness, Pluralism, Transparency, 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

2.1    Equality

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

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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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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Freedom and Manipulation Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Computer Scientist Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
What is freedom?

When we think of freedom or ‘liberty’ we typically think of it in certain ways: e.g., freedom to act as we please, freedom from harm or interference, freedom of thought, or freedom to be a member of a community (Susskind, 2018: 165).

Effect of Technology: Democracy, Individuals, Society, Surveillance
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