How AI Will Change Democracy

This essay examines how AI will transform democracy by altering tasks through speed, scale, scope, and sophistication, detailing impacts on politicians, legislators, bureaucracy, courts, and citizens. It explores benefits like expanded access, efficiency, and granular policy design, while warning about risks including adversarial manipulation, opaque decision-making, bias, mass litigation, and shifts in power. The author frames core security concerns—incentives, error costs, adversarial environments, classification constraints, power and equity, and trust—and calls for ensuring AI strengthens democratic transparency and distributes, rather than concentrates, power.