Culture, Politics, and the Machines We Build

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Intro

I follow the news about AI not as much as I should, but enough to stay well-informed. When I say “news,” I’m not talking so much about new tools and techniques but about emerging use cases, implications, misuse, and broader impact. Most of the articles I come across focus on AI’s influence on business or, more recently, on psychology. However, I rarely, if ever, see articles discussing how AI could influence our political system.

The Myth of Direct Democracy

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Direct democracy feels empowering in a broken system. But unless we fix the trust and accountability mechanisms within a representative democracy, we’ll just keep repeating the same cycle.

In Serbia, we’re witnessing the largest anti-government protest in the last 25 years, possibly the largest ever, despite ongoing population decline. The immediate trigger was the collapse of a canopy that killed 16 people. But I don’t want to focus on why the protest started or speculate about the movement’s future.

Democracy on Vuk Dinic

Culture, Politics, and the Machines We Build

Intro

The Myth of Direct Democracy