Humanity’s Achilles’ Heel

The rise of AI poses existential challenges to democracy, as algorithms increasingly shape governance and public discourse. The Cambridge Analytica scandal which brought us Brexit and the 2016 US election exemplifies this threat. To adapt, democracy must innovate through citizen assemblies and ethical frameworks, treating data as a collective resource and fostering pluralistic governance to navigate the complexities of the AI age effectively.

A Short History Of Human Coordination Failure

The history of human society is shaped by the history of human coordination. Over time, successful societies have evolved beyond the biological limits of unassisted human coordination (the Dunbar number of 150 people) which has necessitated the invention of collaboration technology to coordinate, control and coerce competing communities. It might be possible to map, as…