How Artificial Intelligence Challenges Democracy

The necessary regulations for using common space on the Internet

9 May 2019

Wojciech Przybylski spoke with Paul Nemitz, a member of the German Government’s Data Ethics Commission and the Global Council for Extended Intelligence, about the realistic policies governments can adopt to protect themselves against AI and disinformation.

Artificial intelligence affects the transparency of elections and political discourse because it affects voters’ awareness in the election campaign. It’s a big threat. How to defend against it?

The more technologies that take over the functions of democratic discourse and elections, the more we need the transparency of this technology.

We cannot allow a situation in which people open Facebook or Twitter in the morning and think: “Gee, all these messages from so many people are in favour of one candidate, so there must be something to it” when, in fact, it is all machine produced. The danger is that we do not know when we are dealing with a human being and when we are not.

We, therefore, need a rule that clearly shows that the messages we receive in a discussion or forum come from a human or from a machine.

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Paul Nemitz

A member of the German Government's Data Ethics Commission and the Global Council for Extended Intelligence, visiting professor of law, College of Europe.

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