Computational Challenges in Scaling Democratic Deliberation
For researchers in computational social science and AI, it outlines open problems in scaling deliberative democracy, but remains a high-level survey without concrete results.
The paper identifies computational challenges for scaling democratic deliberation and proposes a structured inventory of algorithmic problems, aiming to bridge digital democracy needs with computer science research.
The paper provides an overview of core functionalities that digital democracy software needs to provide in order to support democratic deliberative processes at scale. Developing these functionalities poses novel computational challenges and requires algorithmic solutions to interesting mathematical problems. The aim of the paper is to break the first ground towards a structured inventory of such problems, and to position possible approaches to them within current academic research in computer science and artificial intelligence.