{"id":3157,"date":"2024-10-03T06:41:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T06:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2024-10-05T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T17:50:54","slug":"maureen-webb-diserta-en-el-foro-global-2024-sobre-la-inteligencia-artificial-en-la-democracia-la-gobernanza-y-las-elecciones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalforumlac.org\/en\/maureen-webb-diserta-en-el-foro-global-2024-sobre-la-inteligencia-artificial-en-la-democracia-la-gobernanza-y-las-elecciones\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Webb Speaks at the 2024 Global Forum on Artificial Intelligence in Democracy, Governance and Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

She is the author of the book \u201cCoding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance and Authoritarianism\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

New York, October 3, 2024<\/strong> – Maureen Webb explained, during her presentation at the VI Global Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, that there is an idea that the code is the law, \u201cand that means that in a world of ubiquitous computing, the self-executing nature of the code will largely determine our relationships and rights and even our constitutional guarantees if we do not pay attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other words, the power of the code to create norms, surpassing the power of the law, will determine the type of society in which we live and whether it will tend to be democratic. The code is designing the norms by which we live, but who controls the code? This for me is an urgent civic issue,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

During her presentation, she explained that there is currently a struggle to build a coded world around us and that ordinary computers, users and citizens are at the mercy of code-makers. \u201cAnd hackers are shamans in this space because they possess both the skills and the inclination to mediate between the code and us,\u201d Webb said.<\/p>\n

The specialist said that, although the hacker stereotype is believed to be a dangerous nihilistic element in society, they come from all political backgrounds. \u201cThey are found throughout the technological world, working for large security platforms, in their own startups, in medium-sized companies and in academia,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cHackers believe that one should be able to take apart digital systems and any other system, interrogate them, study and challenge them, improve them and share added improvements with others,\u201d Webb stressed.<\/p>\n

She stressed that they have made an immense contribution to the development of free software. In other words, “a code that can be studied, developed, reused and shared. And this free software is really the idea that the best code is created with production in a common space.”<\/p>\n

Webb also explained that \u201chackers have been at the forefront of net neutrality, and perhaps net neutrality is the most important digital right or issue today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have learned in the 21st century is that there is an undeniable, centralizing and totalizing dynamic of digital technology, and with the emergence of increasingly sophisticated AI, it will only get worse,\u201d she reiterated.<\/p>\n

She also explained that \u201cAI is a field of computer intelligence that allows for knowledge, representation, reasoning, planning, perception and natural language processing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her opinion, as the 21st century progresses, we will see \u201can increasing convergence between the State and big technologies. Code will cause norms to erode and as codes and norms are changed, there will be demands to change the way we think about democracy and constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaker Maureen Webb<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maureen Webb is the author of \u201cCoding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance and Authoritarianism.\u201d Published in 2020 by MIT Press, the book made Wired magazine\u2019s must-read list that year and continues to attract international interest.<\/p>\n

She has been invited to speak at Chatham House, Virtual Futures, the Oxford Literary Festival, London\u2019s Front-Line Club, UBC\u2019s Blockchain Centre, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the California Council on World Affairs, Gray Area in San Francisco, Theater Neumarkt in Switzerland, the Toronto International Authors Festival, and a podcast affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, among many others.<\/p>\n

She is also the author of \u201cIllusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post 9-11 World,\u201d published by City Lights. Her work has been praised by voices as diverse as Arnoldo Garcia, Craig Newmark, Randi Weingarten, Mark Danner, David Cole, Jeremy Waldron, and Cory Doctorow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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