One Person, One Bot
This vision addresses democratic participation for citizens, but it is incremental as it builds on existing agentic AI concepts without new empirical results.
The paper proposes a democratic model where each citizen is assigned an AI agent as a political delegate to enable direct democracy, examining its feasibility, safety, and research directions.
This short paper puts forward a vision for a new democratic model enabled by the recent technological advances in agentic AI. It therefore opens with drawing a clear and concise picture of the model, and only later addresses related proposals and research directions, and concerns regarding feasibility and safety. It ends with a note on the timeliness of this idea and on optimism. The model proposed is that of assigning each citizen an AI Agent that would serve as their political delegate, enabling the return to direct democracy. The paper examines this models relation to existing research, its potential setbacks and feasibility and argues for its further development.