Emerging Technologies and Democracy – National Endowment for Democracy
Steven Feldstein, Eduardo Ferreyra, and Danilo Krivokapic explore the challenge of safeguarding democratic principles and processes as AI technologies enable governments to collect, process, and integrate unprecedented quantities…
Rapid technological advances are testing democratic principles. Autocrats are leveraging technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things to deepen state surveillance and manipulation, as well as to shift global norms in ways that legitimize repression.
Yet emerging technologies also present opportunities. Making technology work for rather than against democracy will depend on civil society deepening its understanding of promising tech tools; guarding against digital authoritarian threats; and actively shaping the development of next-generation digital norms.
International spying and digital subversion used to be the province of governments. Now anyone who has the cash can order hi-tech snooping and surveillance. This is a threat to the future of freedom.
Beth Kerley is a program officer at the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies, where she manages the emerging technologies and democracy portfolio.
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