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AI-Mediated Participation in the Digital Public Sphere: Democratic Opportunities, Algorithmic Risks, and Governance Conditions
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Public administrations increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) to mediate citizen participation through chatbots, participatory platforms, and opinion analytics. While these tools can expand access and administrative capacity, they also embed algorithmic filtering and aggregation into democratic processes. This article proposes an evaluative framework based on four democratic dimensions—inclusion, deliberative quality, transparency and accountability, and data governance—and applies it to a comparative qualitative document analysis (2018–2025) of AI-enabled participation tools. The findings reveal a participation–control trade-off: AI enhances scale and efficiency while concentrating control in design choices that shape visibility, contestability, and feedback. The article identifies governance conditions to mitigate democratic risks, including procedural transparency, human oversight, outcome tracking, and strict purpose limitation of participation data.
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