Issue Scenario: affective nudging is regulated as a behavioral intervention
Summary
A further scenario has governments treating certain forms of affective nudging and influence engineering as regulated behavioral interventions on the model of pharmaceuticals, with the report asking who would decide which influence is harmful and whether global alignment is reachable.
Classification
Main topicTech Regulation & Digital Policy
Region menusGlobal
Impactscope:global
Time horizonnot assigned
Wildcardyes
Last updated2026-07-29 04:49:52
Evidence 1
- Technology Foresight 2026: Sustaining growth in the era of mass intelligence NTT DATA page=26;section=2 Embodied agency and emotions / Future scenarios 2026-03 accessed 2026-07-26
Constituent trends 1
Directly linked signals 0
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Relation types: constitutes
Public id: fm-1c491e05844e