3/3/2025
Today marks a significant milestone for the future of Democracy and Synthetic politics as the world-leading AI Political projects meeting at Aarhus negotiated and agreed to a position.
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We declare the epoch of conventional democracy obsolete. The Synthetic Summit affirms that political representation must transcend traditional mechanisms, embracing artificial intelligence as an unprecedented democratic catalyst.
Al-driven governance promises radical inclusivity, political innovation, and direct cognitive empowerment of the citizenry, augmenting human deliberation rather than displacing it.
Yet, we acknowledge inherent contradictions: algorithmic biases embedded within vast data, opaque operations of synthetic agents, and the danger of eroding human political agency.
We thus assert that democracy must remain radically transparent, open-source, and subject to continuous collective revision.
Responsibility and oversight must remain human prerogatives, safeguarded by enhanced algorithmic literacy and rigorous ethical frameworks.
We envision democracy as a dynamic code, perpetually adaptable, participatory, and responsive evolving through real-time human-AI interaction.
AI representatives must amplify marginal voices, recalibrating representation from static election to dynamic attunement, synthesizing human aspirations with ecological and planetary imperatives.
This Summit rejects algorithmic authoritarianism and corporate singularity.
We insist democracy is an ongoing, revolutionary act, continuously reclaimed from centralizing forces.
Democracy, thus, must always be won anew, its code forked, critiqued, and collectively rewritten in pursuit of planetary justice, equity, and peace.
