Agentic Citizen Assembly: Can AI Represent Citizens in Public Deliberation? (民主科技小實驗：AI代理人能否代表我們參與公共審議？)
At Internet Week 2026, held from May 12–15 at the NTUH International Convention Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Tech For Good Asia presented early findings from Agentic Citizen Assembly, one of its primary research and civic innovation initiatives exploring whether AI agents can meaningfully participate in public deliberation by representing diverse civic perspectives at scale.
The project investigates how AI-assisted deliberation tools might help expand civic participation, synthesize public opinion, and address long-standing challenges of representation, accessibility, and scalability in democratic engagement.
Early findings highlight both the promise and limitations of AI-mediated participation. While AI agents may help scale deliberative processes and surface patterns across large groups, the research also underscores that human judgment, pluralism, transparency, and continuous public oversight remain essential to democratic legitimacy.
A full research report is expected to be released later this year.
Photo credit: Internet Week 2026; Presenter: Dr. Joshua Chu-Yue Yang, Lecturer in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich
