From Computational Social Choice to Digital Democracy

From Computational Social Choice to Digital Democracy

Markus Brill

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Early Career. Pages 4937-4939. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/698

Digital Democracy (aka e-democracy or interactive democracy) aims to enhance democratic decision-making processes by utilizing digital technology. A common goal of these approaches is to make collective decision-making more engaging, inclusive, and responsive to participants' opinions. For example, online decision-making platforms often provide much more flexibility and interaction possibilities than traditional democratic systems. It is without doubt that the successful design of digital democracy systems presents a multidisciplinary research challenge. I argue that tools and techniques from computational social choice should be employed to aid the design of online decision-making platforms and other digital democracy systems.
Keywords:
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Computational Social Choice
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Voting
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairness: Fairness
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairness: Societal Impact of AI