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AI-Enhanced Deliberative Democracy and the Future of the Collective Will

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Author

Manon Revel, The eophile P enigaud

Outline

This paper analyzes the design choices of old and newly proposed computational frameworks for discovering commonalities in collective preferences, and examines their potential future implications, both technically and normatively. We begin by situating AI-assisted preference elicitation within the historical role of opinion polling, emphasizing that preferences are shaped by decision-making contexts and are rarely captured objectively. With this in mind, we explore AI-based democratic innovations as discovery tools for facilitating collective will, meaning-making, and consensus-seeking. At the same time, we warn against their dangerous misuse, such as enabling binding decisions, encouraging the erosion of power, or ex post facto rationalizing political outcomes.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways: It suggests that it can contribute to improving the democratic decision-making process by suggesting a method to effectively identify group preferences and derive consensus by utilizing AI-based technology. It suggests the possibility of reflecting group opinions more accurately and deriving reasonable social consensus through AI.
Limitations: Raises concerns about the potential misuse of AI-based preference-inducing systems. It points out the risk that they could be used to make binding decisions, exacerbate power imbalances, or be used to justify political outcomes post hoc. It also highlights the need to consider that preferences themselves are not objectively captured but are context-dependent, implying that biases in AI systems or inaccuracies in data could affect the results.
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