AI literacy is vital to combat disinformation and preserve trust in democracy, experts say
Stanford University recently convened a panel of AI experts to discuss disinformation and the technology’s impact on society. The panel featured (speaking at right) visiting professor Florence G’Sell from Sciences Po in France; Stanford’s Paul Edwards, director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society; Center for Ethics in Society fellow Wanheng Hu; and visiting professor Iris Eisenberger from the University of Vienna in Austria.
The Stanford Daily
Artificial intelligence (AI) may erode public trust in democratic processes, leading experts said during the DemocracAI panel hosted by the Science, Technology and Society (STS) program on Democracy Day.
The panel featured STS director Paul Edwards, Center for Ethics in Society fellow Wanheng Hu, visiting professor Florence G’Sell from Sciences Po in France and visiting professor Iris Eisenberger from the University of Vienna in Austria.
“Democracy is not just about people choosing their rulers through elections,” said Jacob Hellman, an STS lecturer who kicked off the discussion.
Rather, he said, democracy depends on “discussion about how we want to live together. Controlling new forms of technology [is] part of how we choose to live together.”
The panelists considered how the latest innovations in AI, including generative models that can produce realistic text and images, could harm democratic norms and reshape politics.
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