Generative AI and the Future of Democratic Citizenship

Digital Government: Research and Practice 2691 (2024/05-ART) (2024)
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Abstract

Generative AI technologies have the potential to be socially and politically transformative. In this paper, we focus on exploring the potential impacts that Generative AI could have on the functioning of our democracies and the nature of citizenship. We do so by drawing on accounts of deliberative democracy and the deliberative virtues associated with it, as well as the reciprocal impacts that social media and Generative AI will have on each other and the broader information landscape. Drawing on this background theory, we outline some of the key positive and negative impacts that Generative AI is likely to have on democratic citizenship. The political significance of these impacts suggests the need for further regulation.

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Paul Formosa
Macquarie University
Siavosh Sahebi
Macquarie University

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