Comment by Patrick Casey

If we fail to act with urgency, we risk allowing our information space to be shaped not by democratic deliberation, but by opaque algorithms, foreign interference, and unaccountable private actors. The report makes this clear: AI systems depend on massive datasets, and the misuse of personal data can be exploited for mass surveillance, predictive policing and censoring political opinions. That is a direct threat to the democratic freedoms this Organisation exists to defend.