On the other hand, our imagination of democracy and digital, plural democracy stems from enabling people to take collective action across differences. We have seen in some applications of AI, like supervised learning employed by Facebook, they make people more and more polarized, because they want to maximize addiction to people’s loneliness. The more lonely people feel, the more addicted they become to their touch screens. It encourages this isolationist thinking by trapping people into addictive content that reinforces this sense of isolation.

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