Recipe series. 1st describing DITL

This recipe is about designing an entire democratic process—not just the AI tool within it. When AI is introduced into a deliberative setting, the surrounding process needs to change too: not just to make the AI work, but to make sure the democracy works.

This policy brief focuses on short-term action (2026-2028) around AI governance and provides practical guidelines for experts and policymakers. It introduces a framework that embeds democratic pillars — participation, freedom, equality, transparency, knowledge, and the rule of law — directly into the entire AI lifecycle.

This section presents the KT4D serious game, an interactive tool to engage players with ethical dilemmas surrounding advanced knowledge technologies.

There are both instrumental and intrinsic reasons to value democracy. In short, democracy is valuable instrumentally because 

Describes the difference between efficiency and democratic effectiveness

Sub-chapter of DDL Handbook on the tension between efficiency paradigm and democracy

On navigating a request to use AI in a deliberative setting