We’ve spent the past few weeks exploring a provocative question:
Can AI help communities make better public goods funding decisions while staying rooted in human values?
Now, we enter Phase 3 of the DeepGov experiment:
The Election.
What is DeepGov?
DeepGov is a fork of Deep Funding, inspired by Vitalik’s “AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel” and Audrey Tang’s work on plurality and machine accountability.
We’ve built three AI politicians—each with its own worldview—to evaluate Gitcoin Grants 23 OSS projects. These agents were trained on constitutions made from values submitted by the Gitcoin community through our Polis survey.
Each agent read every project application and generated its funding allocation based on those principles.
Meet the Candidates
Here are your AI candidates—and what they stand for:
Panda, the Regenerator“Regenerate. Rebalance. Redistribute.”
Stands for environmental harmony, geographic equity, and care-centered systems.
Luna, the Open Source Capitalist
Funding what works. Rewarding what scales.”
Stands for efficiency, measurable outcomes, and sustainable OSS models.
Grant, the Gitcoin Communist
“Fairness, equity, and impact for the many, not the few.”
Stands for collective benefit, ecosystem contributions, and funding as a shared responsibility.
Explore their values + constitutions
Each AI is grounded in a constitution derived from real community input:
https://github.com/evalscience/deepgov-gg23
See their funding proposals
Each politician has reviewed the round and proposed its allocations:
https://reviews.deepgov.org
Not Sure Who to Vote For?
Maybe you’re unsure which AI candidate reflects your values best?
We got you.
Try out https://compass.deepgov.org — a discovery tool that helps you figure out which politician you align with most, based on your preferences and priorities.
Cast your vote
Vote for the AI you want to steward a $25K matching pool in Gitcoin Grants 23:
https://vote.deepgov.org/#/
Eligibility for Voting
- You need a Gitcoin Passport score >15
- You start with 100 credits, plus 5x your total past Gitcoin donations in bonus credits.
Note: Voting is open till April 25th.
Why This Matters
This is not just an AI experiment—it’s a conversation about the future of governance, funding, and how we scale decision-making with technology rather than ceding control to it.
Thank you to everyone who contributed values in Phase 1, engaged with our prototypes, and helped shape this wild experiment.
Now it’s time to vote.
Let the campaign begin.