By Administrator
Publication Date: 2026-05-25 01:55:00
Democracy is not a static thing. It is constantly being created and reshaped by all sorts of forces. In the 20th century, the idea of popular self-government was threatened by new changes in the media with the emergence of radio and then television, followed by the early Internet at the end of the millennium. These changes in technology accompanied war, disease, and economic unrest, leaving people trying to make sense of a society that is evolving faster than ever before.
AI has reached another such point, bringing with it a technological revolution the likes of which we have never experienced before. It is a fundamentally different type of technology that can operate outside of direct human control and uses levers that humans can no longer understand or see. If politics is the art of making things happen, AI, through algorithms and generative forms, has added a kind of unrecognizable alchemy to the process.
As with previous shifts, this required a new…