MozFest House Amsterdam

Harnessing plural and citizen input to create better AI democratic alignment
2024-06-13 , Room B - THT Kamer

The premise: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is increasingly taking on roles once performed by humans, raising ethical issues about fairness and adherence to democratic norms. "AI alignment," ethics, and governance aim to address the risks posed by these technologies to ensure they benefit humanity and the world. In the court, the integration of AI is growing, amplifying ethical challenges related to accuracy, bias, transparency, and accountability.

Various countries passed legal frameworks to manage AGI's evolution and application. However, these efforts may face the "regulatory alignment problem," where laws may not adequately tackle specific AI risks or may conflict with other societal and regulatory goals.

To answer these ambiguous questions about risk level, maintaining digital rights, privacy or rightfully, legitimate representation in these new regulation frameworks, we will ask the citizens to express their fear, usefulness for, aspiration, risk perception to guide the legislator’s work with veritable citizen representation.

The synopsis: This event will serve as a pilot for what is known as an “AI Alignment” assembly where participants are asked about their opinions before and throughout the event on the subjects of development, deployment (usage) and governance in a way to

The session: In this session, we will present the underlying organizational process of organizing an AI alignment assembly, a new known moniker for citizen dialogues about AGI. We will also present co-present as facilitators specific project that imagines the ethical deployment of AGI systems to promote democratic themes such as promoting (public) knowledge integrity on the internet, accessibility and generally augmenting public services and access to information.

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Ahmed X. Medien is a systems engineer, a data scientist, and a global convener on the subjects of credibility online/information integrity, looking for empathy, common sense, and middle ways to the challenges of misinformation and citizens input into the behind platform and content governance online. In the past 5 years, he led several symposia, public fora, and conferences with hundreds of academic researchers on trustworthiness and credibility of information online, civil society organizations, practitioners amongst platforms workers and analysts. You can observe his work via the MisinfoCon global summit series, the Conference for Truth and Trust Online, the Misinformation Village series and the Wikicredibility demo hours series as well as the WikiCred funded research projects.

In 2024, Ahmed is focusing on the intersection of community, design and computational technologies including AI to build new digital pathways towards peace online and in the real tangible world, free democratic debate, and transformational change in society; in arts, governing and online expression. You can follow Ahmed’s work on his website: https://axm.events.

Guillen is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in Open Source Investigations, Digital Methods, and Data Journalism. His work explores how people use data (broadly defined), to become politically active.