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Archive · 24 conversations in Artificial intelligence
Interviews and field notes from people building new forms of democratic practice.
Marco Cappato and Francesco Vecchi discuss how AI could empower democracy when it is designed around civic agency rather than manipulation. The conversation explores participation, deliberation, political rights, digital tools, and the safeguards needed if artificial intelligence is to strengthen democratic decision-making instead of concentrating power.
Bruce Schneier discusses democracy through the lenses of cryptography, security, electronic voting, artificial intelligence, power, and trust. The conversation examines why technical systems cannot solve political legitimacy alone, how security thinking clarifies democratic risks, and why trustworthy institutions matter as much as trustworthy tools.
Tiago Peixoto discusses collective action and the difficulty of reforming democratic systems from inside existing institutions. The conversation connects participation, deliberation, political incentives, and institutional change, focusing on how democratic innovations can move beyond isolated experiments and become part of real systems of public decision-making.
Alex Blaga discusses Trollwall and the use of AI to address toxic content and misinformation on social media. The conversation covers comment moderation, harmful narratives, platform dynamics, language models, and the democratic stakes of improving online debate without ignoring the risks of automated judgment and political manipulation.
Graham Wetherall-Grujić discusses the work of the Innovation in Politics Institute and the challenge of improving political discourse. The conversation explores democratic culture, recognition of public innovation, political communication, and how institutions and civic actors can create better conditions for constructive disagreement and practical reform.
Guido Saracco discusses Tecnosofia and the need to combine humanism and technology in education. The conversation explores democratic culture, technical literacy, universities, civic responsibility, and why societies need people who can understand technological systems without losing sight of ethics, public purpose, and human development.
Andrew Gray discusses Suffrago and the idea of using the wisdom of people’s voices for politics. The conversation explores civic input, political listening, public opinion, technology design, and how democratic tools might help representatives and communities understand priorities without reducing participation to polling or simple voting.
Evelien Nieuwenburg discusses Dembrane ECHO and the challenge of mirroring insights from large group conversations. The conversation explores listening at scale, AI-supported synthesis, deliberation, facilitation, and how public engagement can produce usable collective intelligence without losing the nuance of individual contributions.
Michihito Matsuda discusses the AI Mayor project and the need to rethink old democratic systems. The conversation explores artificial intelligence, political representation, public trust, experimentation, and how provocative civic technology projects can expose weaknesses in existing institutions while raising difficult questions about legitimacy and accountability.
Oliver Klingefjord discusses the Meaning Alignment Institute and how collective wisdom can be surfaced in groups. The conversation explores alignment, deliberation, group intelligence, facilitation, and the design of processes that help communities identify deeper shared meaning rather than simply aggregating preferences or arguments.
Lukas Salecker discusses deliberAIde and how generative AI can change deliberative democracy. The conversation explores AI-supported facilitation, argument structuring, synthesis, and the risks of using language models in public participation, focusing on how technology can assist deliberation without replacing human judgment.
Artem Zhiganov presents Harmonica as a tool for collective sense-making with generative AI. The conversation explores how groups can map ideas, summarize discussion, and use AI to support governance innovation while preserving human interpretation, shared context, and accountability for collective decisions.