Predictive Algorithms and Big Data are Credible Threats to Democracy

Years from now, artificial intelligence (AI), predictive algorithms and biometric sensors might provide the poorest people in society with far better healthcare than the richest people currently have access to today, and nearly all aspects of society will benefit from this imminent technological boom. Governments all over the world are becoming aware of this trend and similarities are already being drawn to the industrial revolution of the late 18th to early 19th century. Experts are predicting that whoever leads the world in AI will most likely dominate the entire world, and effectively threaten liberal democratic principles globally. Taking a different look at the differences between communism and liberalism, it can be deduced that their dissimilarities did not just emanate from their fundamental core principles but also in the way both political systems process data and make decisions. The liberal democratic system is essentially a distributed system -- it distributes information and the power to make decisions between several individuals and organizations.