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Building AI for the Democratic Matrix: A Technical Research Agenda for Normative Competence and Normative Institutions | Knight First Amendment Institute

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To maintain democratic resilience, it is essential to build AI agents capable of choosing behaviors that mirror those of the human agents that constitute human democracies. A project studying how advanced AI systems may harm, or help strengthen, democratic freedoms Democracies are messy. They are constituted not just (or even primarily) by rules and principles written into laws and constitutions, nor by the formal organizational structure of organizations and governments. They are not comprised merely of articulated rights and duties, or even values. Democracies function as complex adaptive systems characterized by dynamic interactions between multiple independent actors. They are “dancing landscapes” as described by Kauffman (1993)—constituted by the concurrent adaptation of numerous independent agents responding to and anticipating behavioral patterns of others in their environment. Democracies embrace complexity rather than imposing order through authoritarian means, rejecting the o

1. Introduction Democracies are messy. They are constituted not just (or even primarily) by rules and principles written into laws and constitutions, nor by the formal organizational structure of organizations and governments. They are not comprised merely of articulated rights and duties, or even values. Democracies function as complex adaptive systems characterized by dynamic interactions between multiple independent actors. They are "dancing landscapes" as described by Kauffman ( 1993 )-constituted by the concurrent adaptation of numerous independent agents responding to and anticipating be

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