Vilnius Ignites: A Greek Prophet’s Cautionary Tale on the Dawn of AI Dominance

Intervened we have

• Artificial intelligence and elections: What do new technologies mean for voter free will?
• Critical thinking: How to develop resistance to information manipulation?
• The authoritarianism of artificial intelligence: Will technology destroy democracy?
• Generative artificial intelligence and creativity: What qualities will a modern man need?
• Economic inequality and the development of artificial intelligence: How is technology widening the gap?
• Web 3 and decentralization: How will the future of the Internet change the balance of power?
• Data ownership and innovation in Vilnius: Will Vilnius residents control their data?
• Artificial intelligence thinks in English: how will it affect Lithuanian culture?
• Conquest of space and Kubilius portfolio: How will we use space resources?

– Dr. Zarkadaki, Lithuania is now in the pre-election period – there are many posters on the streets, advertisements on the Internet. In the future, artificial intelligence and many data collectors may be manipulated much more precisely. Could elections lose their meaning as less true free will remains?

– There is already a lot of manipulation going on in social media and its platforms. Social media platforms use artificial intelligence to micro-target audiences. You’ve no doubt heard about the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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• In 2018, it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica used the personal data of tens of millions of Facebook users in a campaign to influence voters in the United States and the United Kingdom.

It has already been proven how easy it is to precisely target specific groups with specific information or disinformation and influence elections. It’s like propaganda on steroids.

Artificial intelligence helps identify these people on the social network and understand what excites them. A new generation of artificial intelligence, called generative artificial intelligence, that has emerged in the past two years is also changing the field.

Until now, we had algorithms that simply found similar groups, identified a group. Now we have different algorithms that are capable of generating content. It’s a completely different game, so the situation is definitely very dangerous.

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