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AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

And please broaden this beyond AI. The attention economy that comes with social media, and other forms of "tech-feudalism", manipulation, targeting and tracking/surveillance aren't healthy either, even if they don't rely on AI and machine learning.