5 papers
Cultivating Pluralism In Algorithmic Monoculture: The Community Alignment Dataset
Lily Hong Zhang, Smitha Milli, Karen Jusko +12
How can large language models (LLMs) serve users with varying preferences that may conflict across cultural, political, or other dimensions? To advance this challenge, this paper e…
Full-Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value
Joe Edelman, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Ryan Lowe +30
Beneficial societal outcomes cannot be guaranteed by aligning individual AI systems with the intentions of their operators or users. Even an AI system that is perfectly aligned to…
Democratic AI is Possible. The Democracy Levels Framework Shows How It Might Work
Aviv Ovadya, Kyle Redman, Luke Thorburn +11
This position paper argues that effectively "democratizing AI" requires democratic governance and alignment of AI, and that this is particularly valuable for decisions with systemi…
Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere
Manon Revel, Smitha Milli, Tyler Lu +2
Online comment sections, such as those on news sites or social media, have the potential to foster informal public deliberation, However, this potential is often undermined by the…
Scaling Human Judgment in Community Notes with LLMs
Haiwen Li, Soham De, Manon Revel +6
This paper argues for a new paradigm for Community Notes in the LLM era: an open ecosystem where both humans and LLMs can write notes, and the decision of which notes are helpful e…