Human Autonomy & Digital Identity
How AI systems affect individual agency, self-determination, and identity — including the risks of surveillance, manipulation, and the erosion of human capabilities.
Trajectory
Toward participatory collective identity
Main driver
Self-Explaining AI enabling participation
Leading actors
Civil society; UNPFII (indigenous knowledge)
State in 2040
New collective identity; mass civic participation
AI systems can understand and improve human capabilities and coordinate them with each other, leading to a new collective identity that integrates both virtual and real aspects. Interpersonal communication is supported by AI and enables deeper interactions. Self-Explaining AI facilitates low-threshold participation by the population in political, economic and technological decision-making.