Essays Tagged "Renovator"
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Rewiring Democracy Now: Switzerland Shows Us an Alternative to Corporate AI
Public AI Must Counterbalance Corporate AI
This is the second in a multi-part series by Sanders and Schneier going into depth on real-world examples of democratic technologies from their book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. Their first piece was about the Japanese digital democracy party “Team Mirai.”
Skeptics of AI often point to the many significant, unchecked harms that AI produces in society today. Bosses cut human jobs, even if it means stealing human creativity to build AI replacements—regardless of whether the replacement technology is up to the job. Megacorporations aim to capture all the value created by AI for their shareholders, imperiling the global economy with risky and unsustainable ventures. And AI companies use exorbitant amounts of energy and natural resources to fuel all of this, with no apparent concern for local environmental damage or global climate impacts…
Rewiring Democracy Now
A new kind of political engagement emerges in Japan
This is the first in a new multi-part series by Sanders and Schneier going into depth on real-world examples of democratic technologies from their book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship.
When we first heard the name Takahiro Anno a year ago, the then 33-year-old had just mounted a longshot bid for governor of Tokyo. He lacked the backing of any established political party, but won more than 150,000 votes.
That’s not an easy feat for a political newcomer with essentially no resources—no funding for advertising, no campaign apparatus, no political organization. Anno adopted a strategy that differentiated him among the candidates…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.