STUDENTS DEMOCRATIC. STRUTTING : A.I. INNOVATION ESSAY

OPINION : '' ON ' The World Students Society ''    meet the new students democrats. [ Same as the old students democrats ]. But everybody, every student in the world is equal on !WOW!.

A MAJORITY of adults / students across 12 high income countries say they are dissatisfied with the way their democracy is working. 

We see this dissatisfaction manifest in turnstiles ablaze, smashed storefronts and streets choked with tear gas - the increasingly endless churn of protests against governments that are perceived as out of touch, ineffective and corrupt.

Meanwhile, A.I. systems continue to improve rapidly. We already have models that outstrip human performers in fields like geometry and medical imaging.

The public is also becoming more familiar with the technology [ even if Americans use it significantly less than those in many other nations do, most notably in China.]

Perhaps it isn't surprising, then, people around the world already trust emergent A.I. systems over established democratic ones.

Three rounds of surveys run by the Collective Intelligence Project between last March and August 2025 consistently found that people believed A.I. chatbots could make better decisions on their behalf than their elected representatives.

This pattern is as old as politics itself. When democracy struggles to deliver, people turn to strongmen, authoritarians and now algorithms, hoping for competence over chaos.

But replacing democratic deliberation with algorithmic efficiency doesn't doesn't solve the  underlying crisis.

It merely substitutes one form of distance between people and power for another.

When algorithms determine, say budget allocations or public benefits with no explanations and no appeal, the result is the same alienation and disillusionment we're already seeing from distant, unresponsive, institutions - except there's no one to hold accountable.

With human dignity relegated to an afterthought, polarisation deepens and trust erodes further.

This Master Essay publishing continues into the future. The World Students Society thanks Eric Schmidt and Andrew Sorota.

Eric Schmidt, a former Chief executive and chairman of Google, is the author of '' Genesis '' which explores how human will evolve alongside artificial intelligence.

Andrew Sorota is Mr. Schmidt's head of research, leading work on A.I. and democratic innovation.