{"id":35016,"date":"2017-03-03T02:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T10:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:40","slug":"will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing is clear: the way in which we organize the economy and society will change fundamentally. We are experiencing the largest transformation since the end of the Second World War; after the automation of production and the creation of self-driving cars the automation of society is next. With this, society is at a crossroads, which promises great opportunities, but also considerable risks. If we take the wrong decisions it could threaten our greatest historical achievements.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We are in the middle of a technological upheaval that will transform the way society is organized. We must make the right decisions now.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-bottom:0px;\" class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/dirk-helbing\/\">Dirk Helbing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/bruno-s-frey\/\">Bruno S. Frey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/gerd-gigerenzer\/\">Gerd Gigerenzer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/ernst-hafen\/\">Ernst Hafen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/michael-hagner\/\">Michael Hagner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/yvonne-hofstetter\/\">Yvonne Hofstetter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/jeroen-van-den-hoven\/\">Jeroen van den Hoven<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/roberto-v-zicari\/\">Roberto V. Zicari<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/andrej-zwitter\/\">Andrej Zwitter<\/a> on February 25, 2017 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/will-democracy-su...elligence\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing is clear: the way in which we organize the economy and society will change fundamentally. We are experiencing the largest transformation since the end of the Second World War; after the automation of production and the creation of self-driving cars the automation of society is next. With this, society is at a crossroads, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58521,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35016\/revisions\/58521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}