Michael Hoffmann is the H. Bruce McEver Professor in Engineering and the Liberal Arts and a professor for philosophy in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the director of the Reflect! Lab, Co-Director of ETHICx: Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center, and assistant director for Responsible AI in the National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education. His current research focuses on threats to democracy. He develops a new paradigm of democracy called syzenism—from the Greek verb syzên, “living together”—that is supposed to improve democracies’ capacities to deal constructively with deep conflicts that arise when governments try to cope with problems that people experience as important. Professor Hoffmann launched “The Problems of Democracy and possible Solutions (PoDS) Network” that supports collaboration on two questions: (1.) What are the main challenges that threaten the stability of democratic systems of governance? Here, the goal is a comprehensive problem formulation. (2.) What innovation(s) should be realized to address this problem?