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Unfortunately, we are already experiencing some of the dangerous eventualities of AI The : the shift of political discourse to social media has left our internal and interpersonal realm vulnerable to AI-based political manipulation through deep fakes and out-of-control algorithms driving radicalization (Ledwich et al., 2019). Yet, AI is now inseparable from all possible future trajectories: finding a non-zero-sum relationship with AI is a societal and ecological imperative. But the current spring of AI development has certainly sparked our imagination: Projects projects like Polis leverage AI to find out what large numbers of people think about issues in their own words to better shape public policy. Augmented Democracy tries to use AI for radical new forms of direct democracy through a virtual twin.
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