Eric Schmidt and Rather than replace democracy with A.I., we must instead use A.I. to reinvigorate democracy, making it more responsive, more deliberative and more worthy of public trust.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the path we’re currently on.
A majority of adults across 12 high-income countries say they are dissatisfied with the way their democracy is working. We see this disaffection manifest in turnstiles ablaze, smashed storefronts and streets choked with tear gas — the seemingly endless churn of protests against governments that are perceived as out of touch, ineffective and corrupt.
Meanwhile, A.I. systems continue to improve rapidly. We already have models that outstrip human performers in fields like geometry and medical imaging. The public is also becoming more familiar with the technology (even if Americans use it significantly less than those in many other nations do, most notably in China).
Perhaps it isn’t surprising, then, that people around the world already trust emergent A.I. systems over established democratic ones. Three rounds of surveys run by the Collective Intelligence Project between March and August 2025 consistently found that people believed A.I. chatbots could make better decisions on their behalf than their elected representatives.
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