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.

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

(1) democracy can assist us in producing laws and policies that protect the rights and interests of citizens, 

(2) democracy more often than other systems produces the right laws and policies (there are epistemic benefits to democratic decision-making), and 

(3) democracy can improve the people in it through increased autonomy and knowledge (Christiano and Bajaj, 2022).