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Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers

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Human society developed when most collective decision-making was limited to small, geographically concentrated groups such as tribes or extended family groups. Discussions about community issues could take place among small numbers of people with similar concerns. As coordination across larger distances evolved, the costs of travel required representatives from each clan or smaller group to participate in deliberations and decision-making involving multiple local communities. Divergence in the interests of representatives and their constituents opened up opportunities for corruption and elite capture. Technologies now enable very large numbers of people to communicate, coordinate, and make collective decisions on the same platform. We have new opportunities for digitally enabled civic participation and direct democracy that scale for both the smallest and largest groups of people. Quantitative experiments, sometimes including tens of millions of individuals, have examined inclusiveness

Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation Sep 22 Written By Shawneric Hachey by Lily L. Tsai and Alex Pentland (1) The authors explore how AI can foster new forms of civic engagement and direct democracy at both local and national levels. They propose designing digital infrastructure to enable collective decision-making and reduce polarization by encouraging interactions across diverse perspectives and backgrounds. I. What Pluralist Societies Need from Digital Civic Infrastructure Human society developed when most collective decision-maki

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