Luiza’s Newsletter

As the generative AI wave advances and we see more examples of how AI can negatively impact people and society, it gets clearer that many have vastly underestimated its risks.

In today’s edition, I argue that due to the way AI is being integrated into existing systems, platforms, and institutions, it is becoming a manipulative informational filter.

As such, it alters how people understand the world and exposes society to new systemic risks that were initially ignored by policymakers and lawmakers, including in the EU.

AI is a manipulative informational filter because it adds unsolicited noise, bias, distortion, censorship, and sponsored interests to raw human content, data, and information, significantly altering people’s understanding of the world