Primary Driver and Main Requirement
Primary Driver
People delegate important life decisions — healthcare, education, finance, politics — to strangers they have never met: politicians elected through mass media campaigns, opaque algorithms, and distant institutions. Meanwhile, AI assistants are emerging as personal tools but operate in isolation, without governance frameworks or the ability to represent their user's values in collective decision-making. This disconnect leads to political apathy, misaligned AI behavior, and governance systems that fail to reflect people's actual values or leverage their real-world trust networks.
Main Requirement
Intended Outcomes
- Individuals have a personal AI team calibrated to their values (via coaching and self-assessment) that can participate in decisions on their behalf
- Trust-based delegation flows through real relationships (people you actually know), not strangers or celebrities
- Anyone can override their delegates or agents at any time, maintaining personal sovereignty
- The framework is open-source and accessible regardless of technical skill
Enabling Conditions
- A working prototype of value-aligned AI agents exists (the Agora setup flow: coaching -> OKRs -> delegation)
- The liquid democracy model (direct vote, delegate to human, delegate to agent) is implemented as a protocol
- Identity and trust are grounded in real social graphs, not cryptographic proofs or government IDs
- The system supports recursive delegation (person -> agent -> specialist -> their agent) with full transparency
Review date: 2026-07-07