Five dimensions of scaling democratic deliberation: With and beyond AI

As interest grows in AI's potential to transform democratic deliberation, the concept of “scaling” has emerged as a key aspiration - but what does scaling democratic deliberation mean and what is the role of AI in enabling it?

​​Join Claudia Chwalisz, Founder and CEO of DemocracyNext, and Sammy McKinney, AI and Deliberation Fellow at DemocracyNext and PhD student at the University of Cambridge, for the launch of their new DemNext paper exploring this timely question.

​​They will be joined by Oliver Escobar, Kyle Redman, and Manon Revel, and the discussion will be moderated by Andrew Sorota (bios below).

​​In this online event, they will discuss:

• ​Why does 'scaling democratic deliberation' matter​
• ​Five dimensions of scaling democratic deliberation - scaling out, up, across, deep, and in
• ​Why scaling democratic deliberation is not a technological challenge alone, but one that requires a diverse repertoire of technological applications to be combined with strengthened civic infrastructure

​​Don’t miss this opportunity to join the conversation and rethink what meaningful scale in democratic deliberation really looks like.

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1. Sortition (selecting decision makers by lottery)

2. Deliberation (collectively weighing evidence for shared decisions), and

3. Rotation (taking turns representing, and being represented by others).

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