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Use sortition (random selection of citizens) to staff AI oversight boards

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Citizens' Track on AI
Civil-society initiative advancing participatory and democratic governance of artificial intelligence.

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A global citizens’ assembly could periodically convene to consider AI, bringing together 100 to 500 sortition-selected citizens from across the world.
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Global Governance Frameworks
Organization publishing a global-governance framework that proposes citizen-led AI oversight.

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AI governance must be overseen by randomly selected citizen councils (Human Firewall) rather than corporations or governments.
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OECD
International economic organisation

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Citizens assemblies, also called citizens juries or panels, generally refer to a randomly selected group of people who are broadly representative of a community spending significant time learning and collaborating through facilitated deliberation to ...
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Kevin T. Frazier
Law professor; AI litigation scholar

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The proposal is straightforward: a randomly selected body of citizens—the Council—chooses a small set of model constitutions, and access to federal contracts is conditioned on adopting one of them. In short, it would become a procurement standard tha...
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James Geoghegan
Irish Fine Gael TD and Vice Chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

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Our report recommends the establishment of a Citizens’ Assembly to consider how the country should deal with this transformation. Citizens’ Assemblies have previously helped develop approaches to complex societal challenges and generated real momentu...
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University of Edinburgh
Public research university in Edinburgh; publisher of recommendations on democratic AI governance.

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A key recommendation for the UK Government is to establish a standing citizens’ assembly on AI and society. A citizens’ assembly is a group made up of members of the public, selected through a process of random sampling designed to reflect the demogr...
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Connected by Data
Civic organization advocating collective, participatory data and AI governance.

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The Global Citizens Assembly recently used sortition to convene 100 diverse participants for a COP30-linked climate assembly, producing expert-informed policy recommendations based on 40+ hours of participant learning. This model of structured transn...
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Tim Davies
Open data and governance researcher

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The Global Citizens Assembly recently used sortition to convene 100 diverse participants for a COP30-linked climate assembly, producing expert-informed policy recommendations based on 40+ hours of participant learning. This model of structured transn...
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Justin Rosenstein
Co-founder of One Project and Asana; founding advisor to the Center for Humane Technology

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Perhaps the most powerful tool of this kind is the citizens’ assembly: a representative cross-section of everyday people, like voluntary juries, selected by lottery (a practice called sortition) and given extensive expert briefing and skilled facilit...
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Malcolm Byrne
Irish TD (Fianna Fáil)

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Our report recommends that we should have a citizens' assembly on AI, digitalisation and technology. It is critical that we engage all sectors of society in discussions on the potential benefits but also the pitfalls of this new technology.
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Demos Helsinki
Independent Finnish think tank and research organisation focused on democratic governance, societal transformation, and public-interest technology.

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Establish a permanent European citizens’ assembly on AI governance consisting of a representative sample of randomly selected EU citizens to guide decisions about acceptability of AI development and use.
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Data Justice Lab
Research group on data justice

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They have been used to discuss key questions such as how to fight climate change and amend national constitutions. And they have increasingly addressed concerns around data, artificial intelligence, and automated decision-making. [...] What if parti...
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J. Kelsey
Writer, FreeDAO contributor

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Our proposed model would randomly gather a Citizen Assembly as Guardians of a DAO from our existing Freeos participants — already well versed in democratic decision making on a weekly basis. The Guardians of this DAO (this proposal calls it CitAI DAO...
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The Civic Compact
Civic governance initiative

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Permanent Civic Review Board A randomly selected group of citizens constantly oversees and verifies: Proposal summaries, Understanding tests, AI outputs. Human oversight is always present — fresh, random citizens each time, reducing risk of corr...
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Terry Bouricius
Sortition advocate; former Vermont legislator

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Eventually, on a national or state level, [...] AI regulation, [...] might be moved from politicians to large, diverse, randomly selected panels.
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Darren O'Rourke
Irish Sinn Féin TD and member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

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The report's call for a citizens' assembly on artificial intelligence and digitalisation is an important one. We need a national conversation. We need to move beyond the echo chambers of experts and bring this discussion into every living room in Ire...
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The Free City
Civic reform nonprofit

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we risk drifting into technocracy, where algorithms and experts, rather than citizens, set policy. They are randomly selected... They rotate in and out.
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