My Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy

I am pleased to announce the imminent publication of my latest book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship: coauthored with Nathan Sanders, and published by MIT Press on October 21. Rewiring Democracy looks beyond common tropes like deepfakes to exami...

Prompt Injection Vulnerability of Consensus Generating Applications in Digital Democracy

Large Language Models LLMs are gaining traction as a method to generate consensus statements and aggregate preferences in digital democracy experiments. Yet, LLMs may introduce critical vulnerabilities in these systems. Here, we explore the impact of prompt-injection attacks targeting consensus...

CVE-2024-33920

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Kama Democracy Poll.This issue affects Democracy Poll: from n/a through 6.0.3...

CVE-2022-48506

A flawed pseudorandom number generator in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Precinct ICP and ICP2 and ImageCast Evolution ICE scanners allows anyone to determine the order in which ballots were cast from public ballot-level data, allowing deanonymization of voted ballots, in several types of...

Reimagining Democracy

Imagine that all of us--all of society--have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do not have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking. How would we govern ourselves...

Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024)

Last month, Henry Farrell and I convened the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy IWORD 2024 at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg Center in Washington DC. This is a small, invitational workshop on the future of democracy. As with the previous two workshops, the goal was to...

AI and the 2024 Elections

It's been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a "super-cycle" year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation...

Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics--but it won't necessarily be for the worse. India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more...

CVE-2024-45594

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. The meeting embeds feature used in the online or hybrid meetings is subject to potential XSS attack through a malformed URL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.28.3 and 0.29.0...

CVE-2024-45594 Decidim allows cross-site scripting (XSS) in the online or hybrid meeting embeds

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. The meeting embeds feature used in the online or hybrid meetings is subject to potential XSS attack through a malformed URL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.28.3 and 0.29.0...

CVE-2024-45594

CVE-2024-45594 affects the Decidim framework, specifically the online/hybrid meeting embeds feature. A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw can be triggered via a malformed URL in the meeting embeds code. The vulnerability is fixed in Decidim releases 0.28.3 and 0.29.0. If you use decidim-meetings, up...

More on My AI and Democracy Book

In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are hard at work writing. At this point, we would like feedback on titles. Here are four possibilities: 1. Rewiring the Republic: How AI Wi...

CVE-2024-41673

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. The version control feature used in resources is subject to potential XSS attack through a malformed URL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.27.8...

CVE-2024-41673

CVE-2024-41673 affects the Decidim framework; a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the version-control feature used for resources. The issue is observable across multiple Decidim components referenced in connected docs (e.g., decidim-debates, decidim-initiatives, decidim-proposals...

CVE-2024-41673 Decidim has a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the version control page

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. The version control feature used in resources is subject to potential XSS attack through a malformed URL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.27.8...

CVE-2024-32034

decidim is a Free Open-Source participatory democracy, citizen participation and open government for cities and organizations. The admin panel is subject to potential Cross-site scripting XSS attach in case an admin assigns a valuator to a proposal, or does any other action that generates an admi...

CVE-2024-39910

CVE-2024-39910 affects the decidim project where the WYSIWYG editor QuillJS in the admin panel is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) when an attacker can craft HTML before upload. The concrete details across connected sources show an XSS path via editing HTML (e.g., injecting script-like pa...

CVE-2024-32034

Summary: CVE-2024-32034 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Decidim admin activity log when an admin assigns a valuator to a proposal or performs an action that creates an admin log with an XSS payload. Affected versions: Decidim before 0.27.7 and before 0.28.2 (with fixes in 0.2...

My TedXBillings Talk

Over the summer, I gave a talk about AI and democracy at TedXBillings. The recording is live. Please share. Im hoping for more than 200 views…...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: Im speaking--along with John Bruce, the CEO and Co-founder of Inrupt--at the 18th Annual CDOIQ Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The symposium runs from July 16 through 18, 2024, and my session is on Tuesday, July 16 at...