[Cartoon of bewildering 18th century democratic controversies, courtesy of the Met]Hahrie Han and I have a new paper, which has just been published by the Knight First Amendment Institute. We contend that when people in the AI debate talk about democracy, they usually do so in strangely limited ways. This obscures how AI might affect actually existing democracies.
This obscures how AI might affect actually existing democracies. Crudely put, we suggest that many AI people would prefer a version of democracy that gets rid of the politics. That not only misses the point of what democracy is, but risks ignoring a multitude of urgently important problems and questions.
That not only misses the point of what democracy is, but risks ignoring a multitude of urgently important problems and questions. How does actually existing AI affect people's understanding of politics. How might it reshape the ways in which groups and parties operate.