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

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Bürgerrat.de
Citizens’ assembly information platform

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Citizens' assembly on public services with AI [...] The mini-public will consist of 80 people who will be selected at random Unverified source (2025)

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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. Unverified source (2025)

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Petra Olschowski
Baden-Württemberg science minister

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Artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. That's why it's important to involve citizens [...] The randomly selected members [...] contribute their individual perspectives. Unverified source (2025)

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Audrey Tang
Taiwan digital affairs minister

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maybe we can have AI and democracy reinforcing each other. [...] we using sortation Random Stratified Sampling chose 450 people randomly Unverified source (2024)

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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. Unverified source

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Tim Davies
Open data and governance researcher

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AI governance is ... predominantly a matter for companies, governments, and selected experts. Citizens ... are not represented. A legitimacy claim - through sortition-based recruitment... Unverified source (2024)

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Hélène Landemore
Yale political science professor

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We now have the chance to scale and improve such deliberative processes... Meta Community Forums—where randomly selected groups of users ... could deliberate... Unverified source (2023)

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DemocracyNext
Deliberative democracy nonprofit

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We believe that the principles of sortition ... should be underpinning the design of AI governance. Sortition allows for the rotation of decision making... Unverified source

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United States Lab
Governance research and writing project

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AI produces alerts, humans render judgments. Every automated flag routes to a designated human reviewer with duty to explain accept/override outcomes to the public record. [...] Emergency Powers Invocation: Time‑boxed authority with automatic decay;... more Unverified source

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AI Competence
AI governance education organization

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There are several emerging ideas that go beyond the standard board model: Citizen assemblies: Groups of randomly selected citizens reviewing and voting on tech policies. Used in France and Ireland for social issues. [...] Citizen assemblies for AI? ... more Unverified source

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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... more Unverified source

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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... more Unverified source

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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... more Unverified source

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Kevin T. Frazier
Law professor; AI litigation scholar

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Increasingly complex AI cases require juries of experts and professional peers rather than a random selection of citizens. Unverified source (2023)

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Eric Schmidt
Former Google CEO; tech investor

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I would ... have the current companies define reasonable boundaries. The industry will first do that... There’s no-one in the government ... get it right. Unverified source (2023)

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