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Navigating the AI Era: The Imperative for Internet Digital IDs

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a dual-edged sword, offering unprecedented opportunities while introducing complex challenges, particularly in the realm of digital security. At the heart of these challenges is the pressing need for effective internet identification systems capable of distinguishing between human and AI interactions. We will explore the vital importance of […]

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Power & Democracy Power & Inequality

Data privacy: Why it should be the next step in AI regulation

In the current stage of development in Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is nothing more important than data. It’s the fuel of any statistical-based AI method. The most popular classes of models ingest enormous amounts of data to be trained, such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, PaLM. However, in many models, the users do not explicitly give […]

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Power & Democracy

Social media is not your living room, its a public square governed by AI

Today’s social media is saturated with internet bots, cyberbullying, and fake news which are intricately tied to real-world consequences. With artificial intelligence (AI) largely governing interactions on these platforms, the influence of social media on politics, human interactions and societal perspectives has become much more apparent, especially in causing a public divide. To combat this, […]

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The Shadow Players of Politics: AI, LLMs, and the Rise of Digital Propaganda

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president to the USA. Many media outlets discussed his extreme political views, but rarely discussed his strategy to win the vote. Were Americans just bigoted? Did Trump rig the elections? Was Trump just charismatic? Or maybe his views are just right!.. I beg to differ. While all can be […]

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Power & Democracy

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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Human & Machine Power & Democracy

How can we avoid the AI apocalypse?

When it comes to artificial intelligence, there are many different viewpoints and interpretations of what AI is and what it entails. AI encompasses a wide spectrum of technologies. This has had a transformative effect on what we can do with computers today. AI is used widely in many sectors namely, Healthcare, Banking and Finance, Entertainment, […]

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Artificial Intelligence And The End Of Freedom

Introduction Our society has arrived at one of the most important points in human history. The point where it is estimated that supercomputers will soon surpass human capabilities in almost all areas. Also at this point, the amount of data we produce doubles every year. This means that the amount of data we used in […]

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Existence of Big four tech giants threatens Democracy

Democracy has been around since ancient Greek civilization, where it first appeared in Athens during the classical antiquity period. The main idea of democracy was to involve all members of state in the process of governing the society. Nowadays, elective representatives are more common in democratic societies, as countries are so huge that it is […]

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