AI and Democracy: Balancing Risks and Opportunities to Maintain Meaningful Human Control

The fast development of artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to solutions to humanity's greatest problems, but could also bring about extensive risks to our society. From a longtermist perspective, considering the place for transformative AI in our society is worth it. Even though there is some uncertainty in the speed of future AI development, improvement in capabilities is itself inevitable, and once a critical threshold is reached, the risks brought about are existential. The domain that tackles the risks imposed by AI within strategic frameworks is called AI Governance. In the last weekend of March, we got the opportunity to join the itch.io AI Governance Hackathon. In these 2 days, we deliberate on the following question: Where, if anywhere, will AI fit, or fits already, in the democratic system?