I am pleased to announce the imminent publication of my latest book, Rewiring
Democracy: How AI will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship:
coauthored with Nathan Sanders, and published by MIT Press on October 21.
Rewriting Democracy looks beyond common tropes like deepfakes to examine how AI
technologies will affect democracy in five broad areas: politics, legislating,
administration, the judiciary, and citizenship. There is a lot to unpack here,
both positive and negative. We do talk about AI’s possible role in both
democratic backsliding or restoring democracies, but the fundamental focus of
the book is on present and future uses of AIs within functioning democracies.
(And there is a lot going on, in both national and local governments around the
world.) And, yes, we talk about AI-driven propaganda and artificial
conversation...