Micah Weinberg

Public funding bodies and philanthropic intermediaries, whose investment in “AI for democracy” has to date been modest and fragmented, have a critical role to play in directing research investment toward the development of “deliberation-native” AI to...

The intersection of AI and deliberative democracy is not merely a site of risk; it is also a domain of genuine democratic possibility.

The most important near-term investments needed, therefore, are not in AI capability development but in democratic governance infrastructure: standard-setting (such as certification frameworks for algorithmic transparency, third-party safety standard...