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).

The policy brief published by KT4D suggests that examining culture allows for a deeper understanding of societal responses to AI development.

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

There are both instrumental and intrinsic reasons to value democracy. In short, democracy is valuable instrumentally because 

Knowledge technologies, as distinct from information technologies, have been defined in the Module C of the social risk toolkit.

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).