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The Politics of AI and the Fate of Liberal Democracy | Antón Barba-Kay | Notre Dame CCCG
Antón Barba-Kay is Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, as well as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego.
A Web of Our Own Making—his book about what the internet is and what a difference it makes—was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.
One of the dominant commonplaces of the early 21st century was that digital technology would make the world more democratic. And, while we have added an asterisk or two to this assessment, digital platforms and services are still routinely touted as if they are democratic or…
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