Computational Challenges in Scaling Democratic Deliberation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01525v1
• Date: Sat, 02 May 2026 16:38:17 GMT
• Title: Computational Challenges in Scaling Democratic Deliberation
• Abstract summary: The paper provides an overview of core functionalities that digital democracy software needs to provide in order to support democratic deliberative processes at scale.<n>The aim of the paper is to break the first ground towards a structured inventory of such problems, and to position possible approaches to them within current academic research in computer science and artificial intelligence.
• Score: 3.225584113430749
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The paper provides an overview of core functionalities that digital democracy software needs to provide in order to support democratic deliberative processes at scale. Developing these functionalities poses novel computational challenges and requires algorithmic solutions to interesting mathematical problems. The aim of the paper is to break the first ground towards a structured inventory of such problems, and to position possible approaches to them within current academic research in computer science and artificial intelligence.

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