Four Approaches to Democratizing AI — The Collective Intelligence Project

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AI is on track to lead to profound societal shifts, and must be actively directed towards the collective good. Our governance approaches currently fall prey to the transformative technology trilemma. They assume significant trade-offs between progress, participation, and safety. Market-forward builders tend to sacrifice safety for progress; risk-averse technocrats tend to sacrifice participation for safety; participation-centered democrats tend to sacrifice progress for participation. Collective flourishing requires all three. We need work on risk mitigation and redress for harms, as covered in our previous work on standardizing and requiring model evaluation for extreme scenarios, concretizing liability, regulating sensitive use cases, and the like. We also need to articulate an affirmative vision for a democratic approach to AI that can simultaneously advance technological capabilities, spread the benefits, and enable individual and collective self-determination. Here, we focus on th

Four Approaches to Democratizing AI Policy Brief Jul 5 Written By Divya Siddarth Divya Siddarth AI is on track to lead to profound societal shifts, and must be actively directed towards the collective good. Our governance approaches currently fall prey to the transformative technology trilemma. They assume significant trade-offs between progress, participation, and safety. Market-forward builders tend to sacrifice safety for progress; risk-averse technocrats tend to sacrifice participation for safety; participation-centered democrats tend to sacrifice progress for participation. Collective flo

Four Approaches to Democratizing AI — The Collective Intelligence Project

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