Founding the AI & Democracy Foundation — and hiring!
Filling a key leadership role to help us chart a path between (a) power concentration and (b) no-guardrails access to AI.
Some exciting news—I’ve started a new organization to dramatically accelerate the work I’ve been writing about in this newsletter, and we are hiring!
Over the past year, I have been exploring the potential for a new organization focused on a primary subject of this newsletter: providing an alternative to both (a) dangerous concentrations of power and (b) the challenges of providing unfettered access to increasingly capable AI systems.
We believe that high-quality deliberative democratic processes for decision-making on AI (and with AI) can provide a path forward, addressing both core kinds of risk—and enable us to maintain democracy in a world increasingly dominated by AI.
I had helped advocate for and support this kind of work with OpenAI, Meta, and others—and now I’ve founded the AI & Democracy Foundation (AIDF) to accelerate these efforts dramatically.
We’ve raised initial funding and built out part of the team, and are now hiring for two critical leadership roles.
Update: See careers.aidemocracyfoundation.org for the current open roles.
There are many other updates since my last newsletter. A few highlights include: wrapping up the initial OpenAI democratic inputs grant program (which led to a number of excellent projects and writeups), working with Metagov to set up another grant program focused on interoperable deliberative tools (using process cards as part of the application), interviews including with the New York Times, and well…several projects incubating at the AI & Democracy Foundation which I’m excited to share more about soon.
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