"Does the increased access to personal information about other members of our society, facilitated by A/IS, alter the human affective experience?Does this access potentially lead to a change in human autonomy?
## BackgroundTheoretical biology tells us that we should expect increased communication—which A/IS facilitate— to increase group-level investment
1. Extensive use of A/IS could change the expression of individual autonomy and in its place increase group-based identities. Examples of this sortof social alteration may include:1.Changes in the scope of monitoring and control of children’s lives by parents.2.Decreased willingness to express opinions for fear of surveillance or long-term consequences of past expressions being used in changed temporal contexts.3.Utilization of customers or other end users to perform basic corporate business processes such as data entry as a barter for lower prices or access, resulting potentially in reduced tax revenues.4.Changes to the expression of individual autonomy could alter the diversity, creativity, and cohesiveness of a society. It may also alter perceptions of privacy and security, and social and legal liability for autonomous expressions.
## Recommendations1.Organizations, including governments, must put a high value on individuals’ privacy and autonomy, including restricting the amount and age of data held about individuals specifically.2.Education in all forms should encourage individuation, the preservation of autonomy, and knowledge of the appropriate uses and limits to A/IS
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## Further Resources
M. Cooke, “A Space of One’s Own: Autonomy, Privacy, Liberty,” Philosophy & Social Criticism, _Vol. _25, no. 1, pp. 22–53,
D. Peters, R.A. Calvo, R.M. Ryan, “Designing for Motivation, Engagement and Wellbeing in Digital Experience” Frontiers in Psychology – Human Media Interaction, vol.
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J. Roughgarden, M. Oishi and E. Akçay,“Reproductive Social Behavior: Cooperative Games to Replace Sexual Selection.” _Science _311, no. 5763, pp. 965–969,
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