5 papers
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…
Shaping the Future of Social Media with Middleware
Luke Hogg, Renée DiResta, Francis Fukuyama +6
Middleware, third-party software intermediaries between users and platforms, has been broached as a means to decentralize the power of social media platforms and enhance user agenc…
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…
How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?
Christopher Summerfield, Lisa Argyle, Michiel Bakker +20
Advanced AI systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. In this paper, we discuss the impacts that generative artificial intellige…