AI promises to help us find common ground. But democracy was never meant to resolve our disagreements.
What does it mean for AI to be democratic?
Some pushback on a specific fuzzy idea with some ominous implications
Democratic Governance of AI Is the Real Solution
The potential for catastrophic effects from the AI boom demands robust deliberation and real democratic governance. Localized initiatives like data center moratoria won't get us there.
Governments Can’t Agree on What AI Actually Is
Without clear definitions, governance is impossible.
Five Dimensions of Scaling Democratic Deliberation: With and Beyond AI
DemocracyNext's new paper on Five dimensions of scaling democratic deliberation: With and beyond AI
Democracy Needs AI That Listens
From Taiwan's deliberative experiments to our own AI policy - featuring jdd-kami, the Civic AI that fits in a carry-on
A Roadmap to Democratic AI — The Collective Intelligence Project
Our roadmap outlines concrete steps that can be taken in 2024 to build a more democratic AI ecosystem that is adaptive, accountable, processes decentralized information, provides public goods, and safeguards human wellbeing. We describe what the ecosystem could build, research, advocate for, and fun
Democracy x AI Cohort | Mozilla Foundation
The Democracy x AI cohort is founded on the hypothesis that, if built differently, AI could strengthen democracy rather than erode it.
Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance
It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—like the rule of law, higher education, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex s
Digital Democracy in the Age of AI
For many participants, this was their first interaction with AI in a deliberative context.
Democracy and the Epistemic Commons
The Consilience Project is a publication of the Civilization Research Institute (CRI)
AI is a bureaucratic technology. So is fighting war.
What happens when AI slop hits targeting systems and civil liberties?
Democracy is an epistemic discipline, it only works if truth can constrain power. Without a faster, more transparent architecture for shared reality, the arc of democracy bends away from substance, through simulation, and toward authoritarianism. Without major action, it's the inevitable end state.
> the central promise of “ai” is that nothing is worth doing and that community doesn’t exist. It’s individual entitlement as software. It’s Thatcherism. post.lurk.org/@emenel/117441848350524047
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