How AI and democracy can fix each other | Divya Siddarth

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We don't have to sacrifice our freedom for the sake of technological progress, says social technologist Divya Siddarth. She shares how a group of people helped retrain one of the world's most powerful AI models on a constitution they wrote — and offers a vision of technology that aligns with the principles of democracy, rather than conflicting with them.

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0:14.0	Democratic participation and lead to collective flourishing? In her 2023 talk
0:19.2	from TED Democracy, technologist Divia Sadarth lays out what she's learned from using Democratic technology policy questions, like the big one, about how to govern AI after the break.
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