Five Dimensions of Scaling Democratic Deliberation: With and Beyond AI

DemocracyNext's new paper on Five dimensions of scaling democratic deliberation: With and beyond AI

A Roadmap to Democratic AI — The Collective Intelligence Project

Our roadmap outlines concrete steps that can be taken in 2024 to build a more democratic AI ecosystem that is adaptive, accountable, processes decentralized information, provides public goods, and safeguards human wellbeing. We describe what the ecosystem could build, research, advocate for, and fun

Democracy x AI Cohort | Mozilla Foundation

The Democracy x AI cohort is founded on the hypothesis that, if built differently, AI could strengthen democracy rather than erode it.

What does it mean for AI to be democratic?

Some pushback on a specific fuzzy idea with some ominous implications

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025

An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…

The network science of collective intelligence

In the last few years, breakthroughs in computational and experimental techniques have produced several key discoveries in the science of networks and human collective intelligence. This review presents the latest scientific findings from two key fields of research: collective problem-solving and the wisdom of the crowd. I demonstrate the core theoretical tensions separating these research traditions and show how recent findings offer a new synthesis for understanding how network dynamics alter collective intelligence, both positively and negatively.

Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens

Researchers warn of the growing risk of massive AI swarms manipulating popular sentiment and upending democracy as we know it.

All intelligence is collective intelligence

Author: Falandays, J. Benjamin et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Published online: 2023-04-28; Open Access; Keywords: Collective intelligence, self-organization, multicellularity, neural Darwinism, behavioral coordination, cultural evolution; Title: All intelligence is collective intelligence

Is there something it is like to be an AI?

Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Democratizing AI Companies — The Collective Intelligence Project

As AI reshapes society, the companies behind these technologies face a critical challenge: how to build corporate governance structures that prioritize public benefit over profit maximization;.

Democracy as a Scaled Collective Intelligence Process: Points of Vulnerability and Augmentation

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Debates On Frontier Artificial Intelligence Governance: The AI Triad

Analytical Paper Optional: All enrolled students have the option of completing a research paper of at least 20-25 pages, with faculty and peer review of a substantially complete draft. This paper can be used to satisfy the analytical paper requirement for J.D. students. Prerequisite: This course is intended for students intending to work in the […]

Democracy Needs AI That Listens

From Taiwan's deliberative experiments to our own AI policy - featuring jdd-kami, the Civic AI that fits in a carry-on