Reimagining Technology

Founding the AI & Democracy Foundation — and hiring!

Filling key roles to help us chart a path between (a) power concentration and (b) no-guardrails access to AI.

Aug 7, 2024 • 

Aviv Ovadya

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October 2023

Reimagining Democracy for AI (in the "Journal of Democracy")

How can our democratic capacity keep up with AI advances? How can we effectively integrate democracy into AI, and AI into democracy? What would a…

Oct 6, 2023 • 

Aviv Ovadya

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September 2023

Concepts & artifacts for AI-augmented democratic innovation: Process Cards, Run Reports, and more

We need shared language and documentation practices to support understanding, adoption, interoperability, and evaluation of democratic processes.

Sep 28, 2023 • 

Aviv Ovadya

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How 'Platform Democracy' or 'AI Democracy' might interact with existing institutions

Can deliberative democratic processes commissioned by corporations interact helpfully with nation-state, multilateral, and multistakeholder…

Sep 1, 2023 • 

Aviv Ovadya

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July 2023

Deliberative Polls, Citizen Assemblies, and an Online Deliberation Platform

An exploration of Meta’s giant deliberative process. What worked. What didn't. What we could be doing differently.

Jul 10, 2023 • 

Aviv Ovadya

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April 2023

Governance of AI, with AI, through deliberative democracy

How can we govern the impacts of technology, at the necessary speed and scale, in a way that is legitimate, high-quality, democratic, and (where…

Apr 26, 2023 • 

Aviv Ovadya

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November 2022

‘Platform Democracy’—a very different way to govern powerful tech

Facebook is trying ~ it. Google, OpenAI, and others can too. There are better ways to make decisions that impact everyone.

Nov 16, 2022 • 

Aviv Ovadya

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