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Democracy on Mars 3: New Tools for Popular Sovereignty

Several have explored versions of this idea, under the keywords ‘AI-as-representative’ (Collins, 2023), ‘voting avatars’ (Grandi, 2018), and ‘virtual democracy’ (Kahng et al., 2019), ‘plurals’ (Ashkinaze et al., 2024) and ‘simulated deliberative democracy’ (Leike, 2023).

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Link https://tantum.substack.com/p/democracy-on-mars-3-new-tools-for
Creators Tantum Collins
Year 2023

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Simulate participation

Representativeness
Ability to simulate the interactions and decisions of actors (e.g., participants, stakeholders, facilitators, experts), subprocesses, or entire processes (e.g., for rapid process iteration).
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Simulate prototyping

Urgent Learning Speed
Ability to run trials that are good enough to learn from, and fast enough to enable rapid testing of new methods and process comparisons.
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What are the best methods to measure the faithfulness of simulations?

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Simulation & Modeling
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Simulate participation

How can we develop realistic simulation environments that accurately predict how different deliberative formats will perform according to different design choices?

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Simulation & Modeling
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Simulate participation

For what uses, in what contexts and with what level of faithfulness is it helpful or appropriate to use simulations, and what are the philosophical, moral, and political implications?

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Simulation & Modeling Ethics & Philosophy
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Simulate prototyping