Regimes and social networks, the strange alliance: everyone’s rights at risk

Could the use of artificial intelligence be a threat to the democratic stability of contemporary nations? Are we able to know exactly where all the data collected ‘by third parties’ while surfing the Internet goes to? Are we really incognito when we choose this search mode, for example, on Google? Does the network allow even a mild form of user anonymity?

We know that the intent of the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century was to create a new humanity. Expressed in different formulas, even diametrically opposed and conflicting, this was the goal of the Nazi regime as well as that of the Communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union.

Rewriting the model of government and society, reprogramming the citizen so that they fits perfectly into the largest mechanism of the state that gives them birth, grows them and then replaces them with other similar individuals, very similar to them in desires, rights and duties.

With their ability to manage, suggest and divert users’ choice, current digital devices sometimes seem to some to proceed in the same way. Create a critical mass of citizens dedicated to online consumption and compulsive browsing. Accumulating so much data on humanity that it has an exhaustive archive. Then use this data to create a new population, a new humanity entirely dedicated to the technological system.