From Ballots to Bots: Reprogramming Democracy for the AI Era
TL;DR for operators AI political agents are best understood as a bandwidth upgrade for democratic participation, not as chrome-plated replacements for elected officials. The serious idea is not “let a chatbot run parliament”, which would be a fine way to make bad governance both faster and more confidently worded. The serious idea is that citizens, communities, and institutions may use AI delegates to process policy information, model preferences, negotiate trade-offs, and keep a continuous audit trail of representation. ...