REPORT FEBRUARY 21, 2020
MANY TECH EXPERTS SAY DIGITAL DISRUPTION WILL HURT DEMOCRACY
3. Concerns about democracy in the digital age
BY JANNA ANDERSON AND LEE RAINIE
About half of the experts responding to this canvassing said people’s uses of technology will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation, but even those who expressed optimism often voiced concerns. This section includes comments about problems that were made by all respondents regardless of their answer to the main question about the impact of technology on democracy by 2030. These worries are organized under seven themes.An internet pioneer and technology developer and administrator predicted, “My expectation is that by 2030, as much of 75% of the world’s population will be enslaved by artificial intelligence-based surveillance systems developed in China and exported around the world. These systems will keep every citizen under observation 24 hours a day, seven days a week, monitoring their every action.”
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