For millennia, fantasies about intelligent machines have shaped our expectations, hopes and fears. All too often, these imaginings diverge from reality and blur the line between science and fiction. At the JDZB, international researchers will discuss how these visions of artificial intelligence influence political, economic and civil society debates around the world. The central question…

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How can platform councils ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account when setting and implementing private platform rules? The new co-operation project “Platform://Democracy”, comissioned by the Stiftung Mercator, untertakes an inquiry into the meaning and limits of democracy online. The project is carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) with support from the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin) and the Department of Theory and Future of Law of the University of Innsbruck (Austria).

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