Resource by the AI & Democracy Foundation: “… is intended to track the capabilities, research questions, and product gaps that stand between us and deliberative democratic systems that can handle the challenges posed by AI advances.
This map builds on Democratic System Cards (ICML 2025), by providing a concrete path toward improving each of the core dimensions underlying the quality of democratic processes. The current version is intended to particularly accelerate those focused on improving representative deliberative democratic processes. It provides a map of critical ‘democratic capabilities’ across each dimension and supports prioritization about what to research, fund, build, and apply in order to have the most impact.
Our ultimate goal is that key actors making consequential decisions—especially on AI—have access to processes that are sufficiently high quality (e.g., representative, informed, substantive, deliberative, robust, and legible), whether they are governments, corporations, or transnational institutions. The deliberative processes and systems they employ will vary depending on their purpose and context and we need the toolbox and capabilities necessary to work across those contexts…(More)”.
