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AI and Culture Citizen Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
Module C: Historical perspective – Free Will and Autonomy

This section considers how people’s autonomy and free will are hindered or supported by past and present KTs. By focusing on the structural level, we will examine systemic issues such as monopolies over KTs, data extraction and colonialism, labour, and political participation.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Concentration of Power, Culture, Individuals
Democratic values: Accountability, Participation, Pluralism
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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 – Creativity

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.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Culture, Epistemic effect, Individuals
Democratic values: Participation, Pluralism
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AI and Culture Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner SSH Researcher
Module C: Historical perspective – Introduction, literature review, and rationale

Module C of the Toolkit has two primary objectives: First, to understand AI and big data within the context of a long history of interactions between technological affordances and cultural norms, values, and practices. This recognises that knowledge technologies—such as written language, the printing press, television, radio, etc.—have shaped culture and knowledge production. The relationship between technology and culture is fundamentally mutual and reciprocal. Second, building upon the first objective, Module C focuses on the particular definition of AI and big data as advanced knowledge technologies (AKTs). We analyse the past in this module to better understand the present and—potentially—to anticipate what may lie ahead.

Effect of Technology: Culture, Democracy, Individuals, Society
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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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Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Public Authority SSH Researcher
The impact of social networks and misinformation on citizens’ opinions and attitudes

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

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Individuals, Polarisation
Democratic values: Accountability, Pluralism, 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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