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A crucial challenge over the coming decades will be helping countries that fall into the grey area between autocracy and democracy make the transition to fully democratic governance. Part of this will depend on careful use of AI to promote openness and transparency while minimising its potential to be abused for authoritarian surveillance or to spread disinformation.

As technology advances, a replicant (as well as those of us who have not died) will have a variety of bodies and types of bodies to choose from.