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Can we democratize AI?
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Can we democratize AI?

My conversation with Divya Siddarth, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project

Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Divya Siddarth, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) about how we might democratize the development and governance of AI. We discuss:

  • The CIP’s work on alignment assemblies with Anthropic and OpenAI — what they’ve learned, and why in the world a company would agree to increasing public participation.

  • The #1 risk of AI as ranked by the public. (Sneak peek: it has nothing to do with rogue robots.)

  • Are participatory processes good enough to bind companies to the decisions they generate?

  • How we need to fundamentally change our conception of ‘AI expertise.’

  • How worker and public participation can shift the short-term thinking and incentives driving corporate America.

  • Should AI companies become direct democracies or representative ones?

  • How Divya would structure public participation if she had a blank sheet of paper and if AI companies had to adopt the recommendations.

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