I’m Aviv Ovadya a technologist and researcher working to reimagine how we can live with and govern transformative technology; and the CEO and founder of the AI & Democracy Foundation. I’m also affiliated with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, the Centre for Governance of AI, and the newDemocracy Foundation. My full bio can be found at aviv.me.
My goal with this newsletter is to share useful ideas and actionable hope at the messy intersection of technology and society—positive visions of a world where technology is good for people—and concrete actions that can help take us there.
See this post for an overview of much of my recent writing and speaking:
Beyond this newsletter, you might also enjoy checking out:
🧭 Holding Platforms Accountable Is Not Enough. We Need A ‘Compass’ For Social Technologies (November 9, 2021)
Can Algorithmic Recommendation Systems Be Good For Democracy? (February 11, 2022)
Towards Platform Democracy: Policymaking Beyond Corporate CEOs and Partisan Pressure (October 18, 2021)
Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation without censorship (April 14, 2021)
You can also find me at @metaviv, aviv@mastodon.online, and Aviv Ovadya on LinkedIn; and contact me aviv@aviv.me.