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Demos

Report

Liberated public services: a new vision for citizens, professionals and policy makers


This paper sets out a new vision for public services in the United Kingdom, inspired by the new public services paradigm which has emerged locally in the UK in the post-financial crisis era.
Briefing paper

Generative AI and democracy: impacts and interventions


Concerns about the impacts of new and emerging technologies on democratic processes and institutions are not new. This briefing paper provides a primer on the current state of generative AI capabilities, and outlines four pressing mechanisms by which generative AI challenges the stability of democracy.
Report

Synthetic politics: preparing democracy for Generative AI

Kiran Basavaraj, Hannah Perry

This report explores how synthetic content produced by Generative AI poses risks to the core democratic values of truth, equality, and non-violence. It proposes two action plans for what private and public decision-makers should be doing to safeguard democratic integrity immediately, and in the long run.
Report

Generating democracy: AI and the coming revolution in political communications


Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a profound influence on the way people communicate – a change which has accelerated with the advent of new forms of generative AI. This research investigates the implications of this for public discourse, trust and democracy.
Essay

Mission Reform: key reforms for a fit-for-purpose government


Mission-focused policy-making is now dominating the pre-election period in the United Kingdom. In this essay, the authors propose a series of reforms designed to change government, grow its capacities and deliver its missions.