Bind legally

Ability to make outputs enforceable through known and viable legal structures and mechanisms (e.g. regulation that requires authority to implement or seriously consider the outputs).

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Related Goals and Research Questions

Goal: Private organizations that can legally bind themselves to the decisions of a deliberative process

What legal mechanisms can a private company set up to make deliberative outcomes enforceable?

What existing analogues (e.g. binding arbitration) provide legal precedents, and what do they fail to address for AI governance contexts?

Is there a demonstrable trade-off between the degree of legal bindingness imposed on AI labs and their capacity for rapid AI innovation? If so, under what governance designs is that trade-off minimized?

What are the most common barriers that prevent AI labs from binding to deliberative outcomes? Which barriers are structural versus contingent on political will?

Goal: Governments that can legally bind themselves to the decisions of a deliberative process

What are the most common barriers that prevent governments from binding to deliberative outcomes? Which barriers are structural versus contingent on political will?

What alternative mechanisms most effectively replicate the functional properties of a legal bind?

How does the degree of isolation of a citizen participation office affect its resilience to political interference? What level of integration vs. independence optimizes legitimacy?

Goal: Legal frameworks that provide definitions of different degrees of bindingness with timelines and enforcement triggers

Under what conditions should a binding deliberative outcome be legally contestable or reversible?

Regarding timelines, when does the obligation need to begin? How long a delay, after a decision has been made, is acceptable for a bind to be considered respected? What prevents indefinite deferral?

How should the degree of bindingness be calibrated to the characteristics of the decision at stake?

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Milan Municipal Regulation on Participation (2021) Art. 14

Lisbon Deliberação 675/AML/2024