Topic dossier · 24 conversations
Artificial intelligence
How artificial intelligence is reshaping public decision-making — from AI-assisted deliberation and argument mapping to algorithmic governance. Guests examine where AI genuinely helps citizens make collective decisions, where it concentrates power instead, and why questions of ownership, transparency and democratic control matter more than the technology itself.
Paul Nemitz on AI’s threat to democracy, Big Tech power & decentralization→Thomas Lorenz on Brief nach Berlin, lowering barriers to participation & open-source civic tech→Olivier Schulbaum on GRID, collective AI & slowing AI in democratic deliberation→Ryan Koch from the Civic Tech Chat podcast on civic innovation and effective use of AI→Gianluca Misuraca from Inspiring Futures on AI in the public sector→Alvaro Oleart on the instrumentalisation of EU participation processes & limits of AI for democracy→Alberto Fernandez Gibaja from International IDEA on Technology and Democracy→Simon Horton on Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and How AI Can Help End War→Kenobit on Mastodon, the Fediverse, and Decentralized Social Networks→Alice Casiraghi on designing regenerative systems, public services, and democratic participation→Yuting Jiang on the Agora Citizen Network, Polis and bridging-based algorithms→Simone Maria Parazzoli about the Agentic State and how algorithms can transform governments→Marco Cappato & Francesco Vecchi discuss how AI can empower democracy→Bruce Schneier on democracy in the context of cryptography, security, e-voting, AI, power and trust→Tiago Peixoto about the role of collective action in reforming democratic systems→Alex Blaga from Trollwall about using AI to combat toxic content and misinformation on social media→Graham Wetherall-Grujić of the Innovation in Politics Institute about improving political discourse→Guido Saracco about Tecnosofia and the importance of combining humanism and technology in education→Andrew Gray about Suffrago and how to use the wisdom of people's voices for politics→Evelien Nieuwenburg about Dembrane ECHO and mirroring insights from large groups' conversations→Michihito Matsuda about the AI Mayor project and why we need to overcome old democratic systems→Oliver Klingefjord about the Meaning Alignment Institute and how to bring up wisdom in a collective→Lukas Salecker about deliberAIde and why generative AI makes a difference in deliberative democracy→Artem Zhiganov, Harmonica: How to improve collective sense-making with GenAI→