How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?
Abstract
Advanced AI systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. In this paper, we discuss the impacts that generative artificial intelligence may have on democratic processes. We consider the consequences of AI for citizens' ability to make informed choices about political representatives and issues (epistemic impacts). We ask how AI might be used to destabilise or support democratic mechanisms like elections (material impacts). Finally, we discuss whether AI will strengthen or weaken democratic principles (foundational impacts). It is widely acknowledged that new AI systems could pose significant challenges for democracy. However, it has also been argued that generative AI offers new opportunities to educate and learn from citizens, strengthen public discourse, help people find common ground, and to reimagine how democracies might work better.
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@article{arxiv.2409.06729,
title = {How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?},
author = {Christopher Summerfield and Lisa Argyle and Michiel Bakker and Teddy Collins and Esin Durmus and Tyna Eloundou and Iason Gabriel and Deep Ganguli and Kobi Hackenburg and Gillian Hadfield and Luke Hewitt and Saffron Huang and Helene Landemore and Nahema Marchal and Aviv Ovadya and Ariel Procaccia and Mathias Risse and Bruce Schneier and Elizabeth Seger and Divya Siddarth and Henrik Skaug Sætra and MH Tessler and Matthew Botvinick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06729},
year = {2024}
}
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25 pages