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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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Freedom and Manipulation Inclusive Digital Democracy Personal Data and User Profiling Public Authority
Framework for Democratic AI Governance: Roadmap and recommendations for European policymakers

This policy brief focuses on short-term action (2026-2028) around AI governance and provides practical guidelines for experts and policymakers. It introduces a framework that embeds democratic pillars — participation, freedom, equality, transparency, knowledge, and the rule of law — directly into the entire AI lifecycle.

Effect of Technology: Bias, Democracy, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Law, Legitimacy, Opacity, Polarisation, Surveillance
Democratic values: Equality, Fairness, Participation, Rule of Law, Transparency, 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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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
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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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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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AI and Awareness AI and Culture Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Inclusive Digital Democracy Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Public Authority SSH Researcher
Serious Game - Empower Your Digital Decisions

This section presents the KT4D serious game, an interactive tool to engage players with ethical dilemmas surrounding advanced knowledge technologies.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Bias, Concentration of Power, Culture, Democracy, Disinformation & Misinformation, Inclusion/Exclusion, Legitimacy, Polarisation
Democratic values: Accountability, Fairness, Participation, Pluralism, 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
Format: External link
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