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Democracy
04
Dec

How AI Fails Us

December 4, 2021
“How AI Fails Us,” Divya Siddarth, Daron Acemoglu, Danielle Allen, Kate Crawford, James Evans, Michael Jordan, E. Glen Weyl (December 1, 2021). The dominant vision of artificial intelligence imagines a future of large-scale autonomous systems outperforminghumans in an increasing range of fields. This “actually existing AI” vision misconstrues intelligence as autonomousrather than social and relational. It is both unproductive...
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27
Jul

5G and the Future Internet: Implications for Developing Democracies and Human Rights

July 27, 2021
Link https://www.ndi.org/publications/5g-and-future-internet-implications-developing-democracies-and-human-rights 5G adoption is happening around the world, even in places with low internet penetration. As of February 2021, 131 countries had announced plans to invest in 5G and more than 60 of the 98 countries NDI works in were engaging corporations that have close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in their 5G plans....
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17
Nov

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

November 17, 2019
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance...
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15
Dec

Karl Hecht: Health Implications of Long-term Exposure to Electrosmog (English edition 2016)

December 15, 2016
Source: http://kompetenzinitiative.net/KIT/KIT/english-brochures/ Excerpts: The author criticizes the loss of democratic culture,which makes the implications of the telecommunications policy for the public even worse.The brochure concludes with an appeal that sees the human right to health violated on several levels.He calls on the government and the political parties of the Federal Republic of Germany to put...
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