How AI Could Threaten Democracy

AI could threaten democracy by manipulating perceptions and creating polarized, ignorant, and angry societies. It can exploit human weaknesses to increase engagement, leading to addiction, radicalization, and outrage. AI can also create content that elicits strong reactions, regardless of its truthfulness. To protect democracy, we need to insulate it from AI's harmful force, possibly through citizen assemblies that deliberate on democratic questions in a protected environment.

via How AI could threaten democracy | Lawrence Lessig | TEDxBerlin