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Can Democracy Be Simulated?
A new essay from MIT Press Reader asks whether democracy can be simulated, exploring how models and computational tools might replicate deliberation, voting and collective decision-making. The piece weighs the promise of using simulations to study and improve democratic processes against doubts about whether algorithms can capture genuine political participation. Readers and commentators are debating whether modeling citizens' behavior could strengthen or undermine real democratic practice.
Why now: Growing interest in using AI and computational models to study or replace democratic deliberation has made the question timely.
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- Can Democracy Be Simulated? · The MIT Press Reader
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