Can AI Improve Democracy? with James Hughes
Liberal and social democracy are in crisis. Democracy has always been in some crisis over the last century, but this time is different. Fewer people today participate in or trust the institutions of democracy – civic associations, parties, and unions – and more have tuned out politics or turned to strongman fiefdoms and far-right cults. In a global survey in 2023, the Pew Research Center found that almost two-thirds of people in 24 democracies believe their political systems need to be completely reformed. Support for representative democracy is sharply down since 2017 in half the countries surveyed and only higher in three countries (Brazil, Mexico, and Poland). Democracy is a very recent experiment in human governance and may be about to undergo a phase change for better or worse.
See substack article: https://ieet.substack.com/p/can-ai-im...
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