Frequently asked questions

What is YouCongress?

YouCongress is an open-source platform that finds solutions to our most important problems and elevates them in public discourse through AI-enhanced polling and liquid democracy (read post on LessWrong).

What can users do?

YouCongress is still in its infancy, but you already can:

• create new questions
• vote and share your perspective (votes are private unless you publish a comment)
• explore AI-generated opinions from public figures
• explore real quotes from public figures
• reply to public figures' quotes and their AI digital twins will reply back
• delegate to other users and public figures.

What are YouCongress delegates?

YouCongress users can choose a list of delegates, similar to following others on social media. However, here, users' votes align with the majority of their delegates unless they vote personally. For example, if a user has five delegates who have voted on an issue, and three of them vote in favor while two vote against, the user's vote will automatically be in favor too. This holds unless the user votes directly, in which case the delegates' votes don't matter.

Future enhancements will introduce additional delegation mechanisms, including topic-specific delegation. This will enable users to appoint delegates for votes concerning specific areas such as their local community, economic matters, AI-related issues, and more.

Yet, users will be able to filter the results by direct votes, delegated votes, human votes, and AI-generated votes. This way, if one is only interested in human direct votes, the platform will remain useful.

What are AI profiles?

When a user initiate a vote, YouCongress automatically adds AI-generated perspectives from notable figures.

AI-generated content is already faithful on topics where the opinion of public figures is widely common. For example, the AI-generated perspective of Greta Thunberg or Bill Gates on climate change is reasonable. Also, not only will this continue improving, but at some point we'll be able to return real quotes with a source so anyone can confirm the public figure said that.

Yet, AI-generated perspectives can't be trusted yet. But they do serve as a starting point. Then, participants have the ability to add real quotes from notable figures if they provide a source with an URL (so anyone can verify that quote).

How can I change/delete the content attributed to me?

Please contact us at support@youcongress.com

Who is behind YouCongress?

YouCongress is a project of Hector Perez (feel free to reach me by email )

How can I contribute?

Sure, welcome to YouCongress!

If you're a developer, you can contribute on our open source codebase on GitHub Otherwise, feel free to contact Hector at hector@youcongress.com