Comment by Micah Weinberg

This is not a problem with a technical solution. The tools to support large-scale, accessible, evidence-based deliberation already exist. The constraints are political and bureaucratic. Democratic institutions currently lack the capacity, authority, and coordination mechanisms needed to govern AI-augmented deliberation in ways that serve democratic imperatives rather than commercial or partisan ones. The most important near-term investments needed, therefore, are not in AI capability development but in democratic governance infrastructure.