David Abecassis

AI-Powered Politician

As a politician, how can I use AI to make democracy better by making constituent participation more engaging? - Observation: Voters' confidence in politicians is very low (especially in the US). Perhaps they would trust a system more than a person? - Opportunities: - Can have a 1:1 (conversational) relationship with constituents. - Fuller realization of representative democracy by integrating constituent views; the system can reason about conflicting points of view and devise compromises. - RLCF - Reinforcement Learning with Constituent Feedback - Approaches for integrating - Research: What are methods for creating this? - Fine tuning a model - Aggregation of individual preferences through long-term memory extensions - Whole politician vs. individual issue focus? - Deliverable: Demo a system or parts of a system - Deliverable: Write up a cookbook of methods for the above - Ref: [Liquid democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy), also [Flux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(political_party))