Mr. Robot goes to Washington: How AI will change democracy

Increasingly, digital technology is eroding the assumptions and conditions that have underpinned democracy for centuries. By now, fake news and polarization are familiar subjects to those interested in democracy's health. Just last week Facebook announced that it was doubling its'security and community' staff to 20,000. But in the future, we'll have to grapple with the much more significant idea of AI Democracy, asking which decisions could and should be taken by powerful digital systems, and whether such systems might better represent the people than the politicians we send to Congress. It's a prospect which holds possible glories but also terrible risks.