Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy

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* Article: Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy. By Seth Lazar and Lorenzo Manuali. Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab, 2025.

URL = https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.08418


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"Researchers and practitioners have recently asked whether LLMs can support democratic deliberation by leveraging abilities to summarise content, to aggregate opinion over summarised content, and to represent voters by predicting their preferences over unseen choices. In this paper, we assess whether using LLMs to perform these and related functions really advances the democratic values behind these experiments. We suggest that the record is mixed."