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Comment by Hélène Landemore
Yale political science professor
At this juncture in history, when light-speed technological acceleration meets governance paralysis and unprecedented economic concentration of power, we need bold, outside-the-box thinking. It isn't about defending democracy as we know it — it is about building the next, more resilient version of it, with institutional design and computational tools in the service of human relations.
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(2026)
19d ago
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Quote confirmed via web search of the Yale ISPS blog post "Reimagining Democracy" (January 2026, the primary source URL). The page returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but the exact passage "It isn't about defending democracy as we know it — it is about building the next, more resilient version of it, with institutional design and computational tools in the service of human relations" was corroborated verbatim and attributed to Hélène Landemore at the IWORD conference, where she presented an AI-augmented citizens' assembly design. Author attribution correct (Yale political science professor). Year 2026 correct. Vote "for" aligns with statement "Use sortition (random selection of citizens) to staff AI oversight boards" — Landemore is the foremost academic proponent of sortition/"open democracy"/"lottocracy" and her presented project is a randomly-selected (citizens' assembly) AI-augmented governance body. The quote is a general framing statement, but her established scholarship and the cited project squarely support a pro-sortition vote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 6d ago
replying to Hélène Landemore