AI and Collective Decisions: Strengthening Legitimacy and Losers' Consent

ArXi:2604.05368v1 Announce Type: cross AI is increasingly used to scale collective decision-making, but far less attention has been paid to how such systems can procedural legitimacy, particularly the conditions shaping losers' consent: whether participants who do not get their preferred outcome still accept it as fair. We ask: (1) how can AI help ground collective decisions in participants' different experiences and beliefs, and (2) whether exposure to these experiences can increase trust, understanding, and social cohesion even when people disagree with the outcome.