AI Suffrage: A four-country survey on the acceptance of an automated voting system

dc.contributor.author Suter, Viktor
dc.contributor.author Meckel, Miriam
dc.contributor.author Shahrezaye, Morteza
dc.contributor.author Steinacker, Léa
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-24T17:38:47Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-24T17:38:47Z
dc.date.issued 2022-01-04
dc.description.abstract Governments have begun to employ technological systems that use massive amounts of data and artificial intelligence (AI) in the domains of law enforcement, public health, or social welfare. In some areas, shifts in public opinion increasingly favor technology-aided public decision-making. This development presents an opportunity to explore novel approaches to how technology could be used to reinvigorate democratic governance and how the public perceives such changes. The study therefore posits a hypothetical AI voting system that mediates political decision-making between citizens and the state. We conducted a four-country online survey (N=6043) in Greece, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US to find out what factors affect the public’s acceptance of such a system. The data show that Singaporeans are most likely and Greeks least likely to accept the system. Considerations of the technology’s utility have a large effect on acceptance rates across cultures whereas attitudes towards political norms and political performance have partial effects.
dc.format.extent 13 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2022.290
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/79623
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Digital Government and AI
dc.subject artificial intelligence
dc.subject automated decision-making
dc.subject governance by data
dc.subject government
dc.subject voting
dc.title AI Suffrage: A four-country survey on the acceptance of an automated voting system
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