How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?
<|reference_start|>How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?: Advanced AI systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. In this paper, we discuss the impacts that generative artificial intelligence may have on democratic processes. We consider the consequences of AI for citizens' ability to make informed choices about political representatives and issues (epistemic impacts). We ask how AI might be used to destabilise or support democratic mechanisms like elections (material impacts). Finally, we discuss whether AI will strengthen or weaken democratic principles (foundational impacts). It is widely acknowledged that new AI systems could pose significant challenges for democracy. However, it has also been argued that generative AI offers new opportunities to educate and learn from citizens, strengthen public discourse, help people find common ground, and to reimagine how democracies might work better.<|reference_end|>
@article{summerfield2024how,
    title={How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?},
    author={Christopher Summerfield, Lisa Argyle, Michiel Bakker, Teddy Collins,
  Esin Durmus, Tyna Eloundou, Iason Gabriel, Deep Ganguli, Kobi Hackenburg,
  Gillian Hadfield, Luke Hewitt, Saffron Huang, Helene Landemore, Nahema
  Marchal, Aviv Ovadya, Ariel Procaccia, Mathias Risse, Bruce Schneier,
  Elizabeth Seger, Divya Siddarth, Henrik Skaug S{ae}tra, MH Tessler, Matthew
  Botvinick},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06729},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.06729},
    primaryClass={cs.CY cs.AI}
}