Introduction Could existing democratic institutions and processes be improved by AI? A burgeoning body of scholarship asks how AI-driven machine learning can improve—or even replace— democratic institutions that aggregate opinions and beliefs (Ovadya 2023, Jungherr 2023). This literature makes strong, but often unstated assumptions about how democracy works, and where it can go wrong, creating a tacit paradigm that guides scholars to focus on some questions, problems, and hypotheses at th...
