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Micah Weinberg

Carnegie California scholar

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.

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Realizing the Potential Gains of AI-Enabled Deliberative Democracy

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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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

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