Are AI and Democracy Compatible?

Avoiding digital dictatorship may mean rethinking our relationship with machines.

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Computers have always been governance machines —tools used by bureaucracies to organize themselves to exert power, models used to understand how bureaucracies behave , and little bureaucratic organizations in and of themselves . Generative artificial intelligence systems are no exception; they are likely to transform how governments, corporations, and other entities organizationally behave.

Large language models (LLMs) and other related systems have already been subsumed into the age-old struggle for pol

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