Democracy will be hacked by algorithmic propaganda

Deep fake, AI and political profiling will propel us into the era of absolute relativism and doublethink, emptying the concept of "popular will" of any meaning.

Mass democracies are unfit to survive the Digital Age. The so-called “popular will,” on which the idea of representative democracy is founded, will soon be entirely hacked by technologies such as profiling, deepfakes, and generative artificial intelligence.

Deepfakes in particular are a phenomenon that could play a crucial role in subverting the logic of…