Reboot

A blueprint for rescuing our fragile democracy by harnessing AI

Democracy is in retreat at home and abroad. Our institutions and our politics are more broken than ever. At this delicate moment, artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene-a powerful technology that holds as much potential to bolster democracy as to harm it. But we've stopped treating democracy as a solvable problem. We've built extraordinary tools but are not yet using them where they're needed most: to fix our public institutions.

Beth Simone Noveck, a global leader in democratic innovation, shows how institutions around the world are putting AI to work to strengthen democracy. Drawing on field research, real-world case studies, and decades of hands-on experience, she takes readers inside projects that reveal AI's democratic potential: European cities engaging residents in policymaking, Latin American legislatures drafting better laws, and U.S. states transforming how they deliver services.

We stand at an inflection point: Will governments and companies wield AI to tighten their grip on power, or will citizens use it to repair our institutions? Noveck offers a blueprint for tipping the scales in favor of democracy. Reboot is a playbook to help organizations innovate with AI to shore up the foundations of our society.