We are happy to share that the Institute for Democracy at Matej Bel University (UMB) is joining forces with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a new research project looking at how generative artificial intelligence influences democratic attitudes and behavior.
The project, DIGAP (Democracy in the Age of Generative Persuasion), has been funded through the MIT Global Seed Fund. Rather than simply asking whether AI shifts public attitudes, DIGAP takes a longer view — tracking the same individuals over time to understand whether any such effects hold, fade, or reverse, and for whom. This is made possible through our in-house VolebnyKompas panel.
The collaboration is led on the UMB side by Jozef Michal Mintal, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Democracy and the Data and Society Lab, and on the MIT side by Prof. Adam Berinsky and Prof. Dave G. Rand (Cornell University).
More updates to follow as the project develops.