AI is fundamentally reshaping democratic citizenship across three layers: the epistemic layer (how people form beliefs), the agentic layer (how they act on those beliefs), and the institutional layer (how collective governance functions). Personal AI agents will soon mediate the relationship between individuals and government, posing risks similar to social media's polarization effects but harder to detect. The piece proposes a blueprint: AI companies should prioritize truthfulness and explore depolarization capabilities, AI agents must faithfully represent users without enabling motivated reasoning, and policymakers should build AI-mediated deliberation platforms with identity verification to prevent bot manipulation of public input processes.
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