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Publication Date: 2025-12-01 14:00:00
In his 2020 book “Future Politics,“The British lawyer Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was: “How much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and civil society?” But in the first decades of this century, Susskind suggested that we face a different question: “To what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems—and on what terms?”
Artificial intelligence (AI) forces us to confront this question. It’s a technology that, in theory, amplifies the power of its users: a manager, marketer, political activist, or opinionated internet user can issue a single instruction and see their message – whatever it is – instantly written, personalized, and distributed via email, SMS, social media, or other channels to thousands of people within their organization or millions around the world. It also allows us to customize tenders for…