5 papers
The Global Representativeness Index: A Total Variation Distance Framework for Measuring Demographic Fidelity in Survey Research
Evan Hadfield, Andrew Konya
Global survey research increasingly informs high-stakes decisions in AI governance and cross-cultural policy, yet no standardized metric quantifies how well a sample's demographic…
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…
Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders
Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri +4
A growing body of work has shown that AI-assisted methods -- leveraging large language models, social choice methods, and collective dialogues -- can help navigate polarization and…
AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares
Beth Goldberg, Diana Acosta-Navas, Michiel Bakker +24
Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first with the advent of the internet and second with the recent introduction of large lan…
Chain of Alignment: Integrating Public Will with Expert Intelligence for Language Model Alignment
Andrew Konya, Aviv Ovadya, Kevin Feng +4
We introduce a method to measure the alignment between public will and language model (LM) behavior that can be applied to fine-tuning, online oversight, and pre-release safety che…