Australian research foundation advocating sortition-based democratic innovation. Designs and supports citizens' assemblies and juries using random selection. Aviv Ovadya is an affiliated Research Fellow.
Electoral Impact Assessment ModelAnalysisElectoral Impact Assessment ModelThis model estimates AI's marginal electoral impact across three vectors — disinformation influence, infrastructure attacks, and voter suppression. Analysis finds 0.2-5% probability of flipping ind...Quality: 65/100
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Hélène LandemorePersonHélène LandemoreProfessor of Political Science at Yale. Author of "Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century" (2020). Argues elections are aristocratic; truly democratic governance uses...Archon FungPersonArchon FungProfessor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Expert on democracy, governance, and civic participation. Studies how institutional design affects public engagement and accountability.
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AI-Driven Trust DeclineRiskAI-Driven Trust DeclineUS government trust declined from 73% (1958) to 17% (2025), with AI deepfakes projected to reach 8M by 2025 accelerating erosion through the 'liar's dividend' effect—where synthetic content possibi...Quality: 55/100AI DisinformationRiskAI DisinformationPost-2024 analysis shows AI disinformation had limited immediate electoral impact (cheap fakes used 7x more than AI content), but creates concerning long-term epistemic erosion with 82% higher beli...Quality: 54/100Epistemic CollapseRiskEpistemic CollapseEpistemic collapse describes the complete erosion of society's ability to establish factual consensus when AI-generated synthetic content overwhelms verification capacity. Current AI detectors achi...Quality: 49/100