George Metakides

Studies by different organizations on the state of democracy worldwide, while using different methodologies, all arrive at the conclusion that there has been a continuous quantitative and qualitative retreat of democratic practices, including participation in and integrity of elections, civil liberties and the rule of law for the last 16 years. During this same period there have been galloping advances in digital technology and its applications that continue to this day with AI as its fer-de-lance. Democracy and the digital interact more and more deeply with potential positive as well as negative impact on the former. Democracy in the Digital Era, using the latest advances in AI as a case study, aims to promote the understanding of the positive and the negative impact of the digital on democracy, formulating proposals for action to empower and promote the former while preventing or at least containing the latter in the spirit of digital humanism.