Power & Democracy
Privacy Literacy: The Key for a Safer Future
As we move towards the future, technology is offering us a glimpse into exciting new possibilities. The concept of “Smart Cities” and the creation of a virtual world as the “Metaverse” are becoming increasingly viable in our near future. These notions once deemed to only exist in science fiction, are now becoming a tangible reality, […]
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AI creates workforce disruption rather than destruction : It won’t be the death of jobs.
“The robots are coming for your job, too” – is the current mainstream outcry, or could we say paranoia? New artificial intelligence and robotic technologies are fueling fears that automation will cause widespread unemployment. The debate of automation causing potential mass unemployment has been hounding the AI community for the past decade. People tend to […]
Read MorePeeking Behind the AI Curtain: Navigating the Transparency Trap
Who will stand behind AI when we can no longer be sure of the intent behind the algorithms? Transparency, by definition, is the ease to perceive or detect something, whereas, in the context of Artificial Intelligence, it is referred to as explainable AI, this relates to humans being able to perceive the amount of testing […]
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Poor AI literacy : A real threat to democracy
The term literacy originally refered to the ability to read and communicate using written language. In the past decades, literacy has been used with increasing flexibility to encompass a variety of skills and knowledge within many disciplines, from scientific literacy to digital literacy, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy. This article focuses on AI literacy, which […]
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Selling personal data should not be allowed
Who should own personal data? Is it the users? Is it the company harvesting it? While we wrestle with our answers to this, data collected by companies is being sold to third parties. It is available to anyone willing to pay. Should companies be allowed to sell users’ personal data? The meteoric rise in the […]
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Hey Advertisers, Let’s Be Honest
It finally happened; we’re living the data nightmare. In a world where money buys the means to influence the beliefs of individuals via personalized ads curated by powerful algorithms, John Stuart Mill’s idealized marketplace of ideas is no longer a free market. Specifically, in the digital marketplace of ideas, online behavioral advertisement (OBA)—using behavioral targeting […]
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The Dutch Voting Advice Application StemWijzer is an unreliable recommendation system and should be drastically changed
Danielle Melger (2649158) and Freek Cool (2666833) Introduction In the modern democratic society, every few years some sort of election is held. This can be regional elections or, for example, elections to choose new members of parliament. During elections, there are people who know upfront, who or which party they will vote for. This can […]
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Any system that has any form of Artificial Intelligence in its composition should pass several layers of legal and technical regulations
Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more pervasive and advanced. A lot of new impressive AIs have been published recently, such as ChatGPT, DALLE and Prime Voice AI. All these systems have one thing in common: they try to mimic human intelligence and in turn produce works that are as good as human creations or […]
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‘Garbage in, Garbage out’ – Why gender biased algorithms lead to amplified stereotypes
Women are hysterical. Real men don’t cry. Women belong in the kitchen and men in the office. Girls are bad at math and Artificial Intelligence is for boys. To most, these may sound familiar. Gender stereotypes are all around us and often deeply embedded in society. They form us during our most sensitive years and […]
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Big Brother is watching you: How Artificial Intelligence will usher in a Orwellian future
Every minute we produce hundreds of thousands of online searches. These contain information that reveals how we feel and think. It is estimated that in 10 years time there will be more than 150 billion networked measuring sensors, with the growing population, this means the amount of data will double every 12 hours. Despite this […]
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