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. The level of acceptance of the results from the elections - the legitimacy of the outcome - rests largely on how those who end up with less power shares in the representative system see the fairness of the election process itself.

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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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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). Philosophers have often said that freedom insofar as it is afforded to you by others is not freedom (Dworkin, 1989: Ch 1; Pettit, 2017; Skinner, 2012). Whilst AI and big data could in several ways enhance freedom, it may also limit it.

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Democracy Individuals Society Surveillance
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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. To be brief, the main benefit of equality in democracy is that it gives equal consideration to all individuals, thus each person is a free and willing self-legislator among equals.

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Agency Bias Disinformation & Misinformation Epistemic effect Inclusion/Exclusion Individuals Opacity Polarisation Privacy Society Surveillance
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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 

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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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