Halfdan Lynge on state-citizen relations when agents become the front end of government
Ep. 64

Halfdan Lynge on state-citizen relations when agents become the front end of government

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Episode description

Halfdan Lynge draws on his work in Danish digital government and his experience in Mozambique to discuss where civic tech and GovTech overlap, and how infrastructure, funding and regulation shape what can be built. He and Alessandro then consider what happens when AI agents become an interface between citizens and government. The conversation ends with a question for democracy itself: how might its institutions change as technology changes the way people participate?

0:00Halfdan’s path into digital government
7:18Civic tech and GovTech
14:14Building GovTech in Mozambique
23:36Denmark’s digital government
28:15AI agents as the government interface
35:59Can governments keep up?
41:06Big tech as the new interface
44:17Rethinking democracy
50:28Why we have representative democracy
54:45Final message