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  • 6 - Artificial Intelligence and the Past, Present, and Future of Democracy

  • from Part II - Current and Future Approaches to AI Governance
  • Edited by Silja Voeneky, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, Philipp Kellmeyer, Oliver Mueller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, Wolfram Burgard, Technische Universität Nürnberg
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence
    Published online:
    28 October 2022
    Print publication:
    17 November 2022, pp 85-103
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    In this chapter, the philosopher Mathias Risse reflects on the medium and long-term prospects and challenges democracy faces from AI. Comparing the political nature of AI systems with traffic infrastructure, the author points out AI’s potential to greatly strengthen democracy, but only with the right efforts. The chapter starts with a critical examination of the relation between democracy and technology with a historical perspective before outlining the techno skepticism prevalent in several grand narratives of AI. Finally, the author explores the possibilities and challenges that AI may lead to in the present digital age. He argues that technology critically bears on what forms of human life get realised or imagined, as it changes the materiality of democracy (by altering how collective decision making unfolds) and what its human participants are like. In conclusion, Mathias Risse argues that both technologists and citizens need to engage with ethics and political thoughts generally to have the spirit and dedication to build and maintain a democracy-enhancing AI infrastructure.