How AI Threatens Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6288370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah E Krep (0000-0002-0924-4234), Sarah Krep, Sarah Kreps, Doug Kriner |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 122-131 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2023.a907693 |
| OpenAlex | W4386929988 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
The explosive rise of generative AI is already transforming journalism, finance, and medicine, but it could also have a disruptive influence on politics. For example, asking a chatbot how to navigate a complicated bureaucracy or to help draft a letter to an elected official could bolster civic engagement. However, that same technology—with its potential to produce disinformation and misinformation at scale—threatens to interfere with democratic representation, undermine democratic accountability, and corrode social and political trust. This essay analyzes the scope of the threat in each of these spheres and discusses potential guardrails for these misuses, including neural networks used to identify generated content, self-regulation by generative-AI platforms, and greater digital literacy on the part of the public and elites alike
Accountability · Bureaucracy · Democracy · Disinformation · Generative grammar · Misinformation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Public Administration · Artificial Intelligence
Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation
Exploring the impact of online misinformation on ideological polarisation and institutional distrust
Algorithmic emotions and digital deception
The Education Leadership Challenges for Universities in a Postdigital Age
Vox Populi, Vox ChatGPT
Integrating Civic and Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking
Inaccuracies, omissions, and bullshit
The Disconnection of Advocacy and Analysis in Public Administration
The case for humanities-based studies of AI production and effects
Spaces for democracy with generative artificial intelligence
“Beware of first-hand ideas”
AI-Enhanced Deliberative Democracy and the Future of the Collective Will
Generative AI and Democratic Culture
A People’s AI
From rule of law to rule of algorithm
Efficiency tool or manipulation machine? Assessing dominant claims about the quantity, quality, and persuasive power of visual generative AI in political campaigns
Technofascism
Do AIs have politics? Thinking about ChatGPT through the work of Langdon Winner
What Democracy Are We Talking About
Generative artificial intelligence, misinformation and political polarization
Anticipating the Challenges of AI in Climate Governance
On the need for a global AI ethics
AI’s Sociological Era
The Dawn of Generative AI-Enabled Political Activism
How Social Media Connects and Divides Us
Making water knowledge with Artificial Intelligence
Trends in Political Science Research
Linguistic insights, media mechanisms and role of AI in dissemination and impact of disinformation
Artificial Intelligence and Political Trust
Leisure Ex Machina
Democracy by algorithm? Public attitudes towards AI in parliamentary decision-making in the UK and Japan
Clicks and Mortar
Thinking democracy in a digital age
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy
Instrumental Bot Identities and the Politics of Online Discourse
Inteligência Artificial e democracia
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 18 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |