How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6MVJm9ElMA claude.iconThe main points of this talk are as follows

  • Democracy is essential for managing transformative technologies such as AI. If existing democracy is not sufficient, it needs to evolve, not give up on it.
  • Technology expands our capabilities, and democracy is how we decide how to use those capabilities.
  • The speakers undertook a project to incorporate a wide range of people’s views into the governance of AI. People were willing to have complex conversations about the risks of AI, and unexpectedly there was a lot of agreement.
  • Chatbots that were constitutionally created and trained in collaboration with the general public were fairer than models created by researchers.
  • Technological progress, safety, and democratic participation are interrelated. One cannot be sacrificed for the other.
  • We are always in a position to build new systems of collective knowledge from the ground up. We should take advantage of the opportunities for change offered by new technologies.

The core message of the lecture is the importance of using democracy as a solution and shifting the system to build the world we want.


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