Comment by William Chan

Similarly, Coeckelbergh maintained that ‘one could consider establishing a new institution that better links technology-development contexts to democratically elected bodies and does so in ways that redistribute power towards the elected bodies’ (2024, p. 75). In a like manner, Aytac has proposed the establishment of Citizen Boards of Governance (CBGs), which are randomly selected citizens ‘authorized to govern the algorithmic infrastructure of Big Tech platforms’ (2024, p. 1431). Overall, the aim of these proposals is to hold tech firms accountable to social or political bodies where the core members are selected by democratic means (e.g. elections or sortition).