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Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Public comment is a pillar of democracy. You don’t just put a new rule in place. People need to have a voice and feel like they’ve been heard before a rule is imposed on them. If you skip that step, people don’t accept rules as legitimate. That’s why that process is baked into how America works. And that pillar just cracked, and by now, in my mind, it’s fallen over.