How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?

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Advanced AI systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available.

• In this paper, we discuss the impacts that generative artificial intelligence may have on democratic processes.
• We consider the consequences of AI for citizens' ability to make informed choices about political representatives and issues (epistemic impacts).
• We ask how AI might be used to destabilise or support democratic mechanisms like elections (material impacts).