AI agents are being sold as democratic and participatory: a way to decentralise AI by giving every citizen a personal proxy. But is replacing friction with proxies necessarily more democratic? Or does it shift political voice into infrastructure that remains standardised and centrally structured?
Dr. Anuradha Sajjanhar
Speaking at India’s AI Impact Summit, a professor envisioned AI agents serving as personal proxies for every Indian, but this raises questions about whether embedding hallucinatory, probabilistic systems into everyday life strengthens democratic participation, Anuradha Sajjanhar writes.
A talk at India's AI Impact Summit envisioned AI agents as personal proxies that negotiate, coordinate and interface on one’s behalf, Anuradha Sajjanhar writes.
