tl;dr: Recently founded the AI & Democracy Foundation (AIDF) & we are hiring! Two especially critical roles: • Director of AI Strategy: Bring deliberative democracy to AI & AI to deliberation • Head of Ops: Lead & own everything needed to grow the org. Details below...

Sharing a *very* exciting paper from the Public AI Network, which outlines a vision of governments and public-interest organizations acting as inventors, builders, market-shapers, and maintainers of AI. publicai.network/whitepaper/

As mentions of #AI swamp your feed, be sure to make room in your information diet for this paper from the Public AI Network: lnkd.in/eXXbTGUi We need a world with both public and private options. #PublicAI

What is public AI, and why is it important? #publicai We've seen three answers in just the past month: from the Public AI Network, from Mozilla, and Vanderbilt. Some folks have asked me about the differences, so here's a short 🧵:

The network paper (publicai.network/whitepaper) emphasizes the role of governments and other public institutions in building and funding public AI. Brandon Jackson it's B! Cavello 🐝 Sam Klein📚🏛️ Nicholas P. Garcia Alex Krasodomski Flynn Devine EleanorTursman

A new whitepaper from the Public AI Network: how public institutions can build AI infrastructure for the common good. publicai.network/whitepaper

We're moving towards a world where more and more communication between people will have some kind of AI in the middle... A take on some ways this will manifest in the near future - flynndevine.substack.com/p/humanaihuman…

New piece where I explore the relationship between people and gen AI in the process of thought and idea communication. TL;DR: we're at a pivotal moment that will define this relationship and the way many are exploring this could set us on the wrong path flynndevine.substack.com/p/make-ai-prom…

Excited to unveil my latest project! Over the last few months, my co-founder Flynn Devine and I have been researching ways to make AI work better for thinkers and writers who care deeply about quality and intellectual rigor. There's a lot of free AI chat applications out

This genuinely looks very cool Flynn Devine I’d really like to give it b a go.

Flynn Devine Was serious I would use this.

Team of very smart people exploring some interesting ideas. As the bi-polar world order heats up further around tech and innovation, think there’s a big question about what other centres of power can offer as viable ways forward - UK being one of them.

Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.09222 • It explores why democratic AI is critical (for some decisions). • It defines 6 levels (L0-L5) for transferring decision-making power from unilateral authorities to democratic systems. • Finally, it includes practical tools

There’s an increasing interest in exploring more democratic AI governance, but little work on evaluation or milestones to help push the field forward. The Democracy Levels provide a guiding framework and tools to help decision-makers build and assess governance structures.

Check out the paper (to appear in #ICML2025): arxiv.org/abs/2411.09222 And thanks to my incredible co-authors / Democracy Levels Working group Kyle Redman, Luke Thorburn, Quan Ze Chen, Oliver Smith, Flynn Devine, Andrew Konya, smitha milli, Manon Revel, Kevin Feng, Amy Zhang,