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How to Save Democracy from Tech

on YouTube 23m
Talkat DLD Munich 25 · 2025-01-16..01-18· [policy-and-regulation, large-language-models]

speakers

name:Gary Marcus
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name:Matthew Bishop
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name:Marietje Schaake
x:MarietjeSchaake

resources

video:https://youtu.be/m33CC0sOIb4
slides:none on file

summary

Tech oligarchs sit beside incoming power and already steer policy, with satellites and undersea cables privatized and campaign money shaping contracts and oversight. Large language models enable scalable cybercrime (a National AI Institute study shows repeated jailbreaking yields successful phishing) and introduce systemic software vulnerabilities; one player’s 10,000 H100s purchase underlines competing motives. Deregulation plus targeted attacks on critics erode academic freedom; state laws, public boycotts of generative AI, and redirected public procurement are the concrete countermeasures proposed.

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chapters (11)

  1. 0:00Tech plutocracy threat
  2. 1:50Silicon Valley privatizing politics
  3. 5:23AI cybercrime deregulation
  4. 9:55Tech’s free speech claims
  5. 12:01Tech-led government plans
  6. 14:53Democracy survive tech takeover?
  7. 17:20Breaking democracy easier than fixing
  8. 18:43Boycott generative AI
  9. 20:10Europe’s tech authoritarianism shield
  10. 21:54Technology modernize democracy?
  11. 22:38Call to defend democracy

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