Accountability

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

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Agency Autonomy Bias Disinformation & Misinformation Epistemic effect Individuals Polarisation

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Accountability Pluralism Trust

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AI and Awareness AI and Culture Algorithmic Accountability Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Inclusive Digital Democracy Personal Data and User Profiling Public Authority SSH Researcher

Bibliography of KT4D Social Risk Toolkit Module A: AI, free will and autonomy

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Agency Autonomy Bias Disinformation & Misinformation Epistemic effect Individuals Polarisation

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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. 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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Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Computer Scientist SSH Researcher

Experiments on critical thinking, autonomy and AI

The experimental component of Module A aims to further characterise internet users' behaviours when faced with online choices potentially undermining their autonomy: how people evaluate AI-generated information and/or content selected through AI-based algorithms, and how people are influenced by AI-based algorithms in their online choices.

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Agency Autonomy Bias Disinformation & Misinformation Epistemic effect Inclusion/Exclusion Polarisation

Democratic values:

Accountability Trust

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Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Public Authority SSH Researcher

KT4D: AI, free will and autonomy - Introduction & Literature review

The source, which comprises excerpts from Module A of the KT4D Social Risk Toolkit, explores the complex challenge presented by artificial intelligence to individual autonomy and free will within modern society. It introduces a comprehensive literature review focusing on how highly personalized algorithmic content curation influences personal opinions by exploiting deep-seated human cognitive biases, such as the preference for emotionally charged or explanatory information.

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Agency Autonomy Bias Disinformation & Misinformation Epistemic effect Individuals Polarisation

Democratic values:

Accountability Pluralism 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). Perhaps the easiest way of returning control of a public good to the people would be nationalisation of large AI companies and platforms. However, this also affords the government considerable power, to tailor public discourse to their interests (Susskind, 2018: 350).

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Concentration of Power Legitimacy

Democratic values:

Accountability Equality Fairness 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. 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

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

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Agency Culture Democracy Epistemic effect Inclusion/Exclusion Individuals Legitimacy Opacity Society

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Accountability Deliberation Equality Fairness Participation Pluralism Rule of Law Transparency Trust

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