Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI

2024-06-18 11:04

Democracy is an information system that leverages collective intelligence to solve political problems.

The latter is problem No. 2: What I refer to as "Hacking" in my latest book: "A Hacker's Mind." Democracy is a socio-technical system.

OK, let's get back to the notion of democracy as an information system.

Our 18th century systems of democracy were the only things that scaled with the technology of the time.

We don't want a system that results in us forgetting how to run a democracy.

To summarize, the systems of governance we designed at the start of the Industrial Age are ill-suited to the Information Age.

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