Map by Power for Democracies: “AI has been reshaping how information spreads, how governments operate, and how citizens participate. Deciding where to direct limited resources to protect democracy from these rapid developments has been far from straightforward.
While various research communities have been working in parallel, producing valuable but fragmented analyses, no single resource exists that brings these findings together into a coherent body of work….
Given how fast AI is developing, we began filling these gaps as a priority. Over six weeks, our team reviewed a wide body of existing literature and selected ten leading frameworks mapping AI threats.
The selected literature spans multiple levels of abstraction, disciplinary lenses, and democratic contexts – from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s broad survey of AI and democracy to the Brennan Center for Justice’s focus on US electoral integrity, to the global perspective of the 2026 International AI Safety Report.
We extracted and standardised entries from these sources into a unified, publicly available database containing:
- 144 documented AI threats to democracy
- 103 pro-democracy strategies for addressing them
- 44 independent opportunities for strengthening democratic resilience
Each entry is mapped onto the aspects of democracy it affects, using an adapted International IDEA framework of democracy that clusters around: citizenship, law and rights; representative and accountable government; civil society and popular participation; and a category covering international dynamics…(More)”.
