AI Holds Promise and Peril in Revolutionizing Democracy
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AI can remove information bottlenecks between people's desires and outcomes by capturing nuanced preferences and mapping them to customized options. This could work for restaurants, jobs, clothes, software, etc.
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Biggest impact would be in politics - AI could capture nuanced voter preferences on many issues and advocate policies aligning with them, overcoming limitations of representative democracy.
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Risks include privacy violations from intimate personal data access and lack of human deliberation, but it could revolutionize democracy by better reflecting voter wishes.
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No clear transition path exists from current systems to AI-enhanced direct democracies.
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Recommendation systems in media show path for AI to reduce bottlenecks in other areas by mapping detailed user preferences to customized suggestions.