2024
AI and Epistemic Risk for Democracy: A Coming Crisis of Public Knowledge?
Northeastern University
Research Archive
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3.19.24
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Melissa Heikkiläarchive
What the AI Act will(and won't) change
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4.1.24
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Benjamin M. et al.
LLMs are being used to automate social science research
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7.29.24
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Matt Motyl
Do people still have meaningful connections on social media?
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7.17.24
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Jon Keegan
Experts suggest new benchmarks to rank AI models
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10.18.24
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Michael H. Tessler et al.
Could AI help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation?
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2.2.22
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Audrey Tang
What We Can Learn From Taiwan's Experiments with Democracy
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9.24.24
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Audrey Tang et al.
The 'Digitalist Papers' presents possible futures the AI revolution might produce
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9.3.24
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Metagov
Metagov launches interoperable deliberative tools cohort with 14 grantees
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6.18.24
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Julia Shapero
AI will cause ‘painful transition’ for world economy
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6.1.24
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Jewla L. & Julia C.
Passing in the Dark: Making Visible Philanthropy’s Hidden and Conflicting Mental Models for Systems Change
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8.22.24
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Jack Stilgoe
AI has a democracy problem. Citizens’ assemblies can help.
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8.22.24
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Matt Prewitt
Will AI Improve Exponentially At Value Judgments?
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8.16.24
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Helen M. et al
How to Build Progressive Public Services with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
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5.1.24
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Serena O. & Tamara K.
AI Governance Needs Sociotechnical Expertise
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8.12.24
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Rahul Parundekar
Autonomous Humans - Dialogues #2 - Biases in AI
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8.21.24
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Vitalik Buterin
Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell
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8.16.24
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Matt Motyl
Don’t Let Generative AI Distract Us from the Real Election Risks in Tech
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8.18.24
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Nicholas Piachaud
WhatsApp answers five questions about the safety of its app
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4.13.24
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Peter Slattery et al
The AI Risk Repository: A Comprehensive Meta-Review, Database, and Taxonomy of Risks From Artificial Intelligence
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8.11.24
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Josh Kramer
The Vermont miracle: How one local platform is rewriting the rules of social media
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8.8.24
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Eve Sneider and Jonathan
Reasons To Be Optimistic About Polarization
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8.6.24
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Tara M., Josh T., Seth F.
Metagov Spotlight: Exit to Community Calculators
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8.6.24
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Ravi Iyer
Twitter/X Should Stop Incentivizing Fear Speech in the UK
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7.15.24
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Farhana S. et al.
‘One Style Does Not Regulate All’: Moderation Practices in Public and Private WhatsApp Groups
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8.2.24
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Alex Randaccio
Edges: a Plural Money Experiment
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2.29.24
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Chris J Handel
The discovery economy
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7.1.24
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Christina J. & Helen K.
Five ways to build a culture of AI experimentation
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7.29.24
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Matt Motyl
Do people still have meaningful connections on social media?
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7.17.24
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Jon Keegan
Experts suggest new benchmarks to rank AI models
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7.11.24
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Harmony Labs
Capturable Curiosity for Civic Engagement
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12.14.23
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Federico Ast
Overcoming Algocracy: AI, Blockchain and Crowdsourcing for Designing Better Dispute Systems
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7.9.24
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Anders H. & Emilie V.
The Adoption of ChatGPT
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7.1.24
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Anna Dent
Automating public services
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7.30.24
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Joseph W. & Ronald R.
Social Processes of Online Hate
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7.1.24
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Pedro Ramaciotti
DEPOLARIZING AND MODERATING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AI
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7.16.24
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Sophie Culpepper
Could social media support healthy online conversations?
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12.21.22
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Chris Lengerich et al.
Contrastive Distillation Is a Sample-Efficient Self-Supervised Loss Policy for Transfer Learning
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6.11.24
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Anka Reuel et al.
Technical Research and Talent is Needed for Effective AI Governance
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6.3.24
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Róbert Bjarnason et al.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Collective Intelligence: Policy Synth and Smarter Crowdsourcing
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1.31.24
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Benardo Mueller
The Arc of Antitrust: A Text-based Measure of Antitrust Policy Beliefs and Attitudes
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3.12.24
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Glen Weyl
Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
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12.27.23
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Danielle Allen
Beneficial Futures of Pluralism, Democracy, and the Tools Needed to Build Them
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12.22.22
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Plurality Institute
Plurality Institute Mission Statement
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7.17.24
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Yining C. & Jan K.
Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs
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7.12.24
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Anil D. & Oliver H.
Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
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5.22.24
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Mark Coeckelbergh
Artificial intelligence, the common good, and the democratic deficit in AI governance
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1.30.24
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Davide G. et al.
Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy
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5.29.24
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Claudia L. et al.
Users’ Experiences of Algorithm-Mediated Public Services: Folk Theories, Trust, and Strategies in the Global South
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6.17.24
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Carson D. et al.
Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models
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2.6.24
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James F. et al.
Can Deliberation Have Lasting Effects?
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12.22.23
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Yasmeena K. et al.
How College Students Can Depolarize: Evidence for Political Moderation Within Homogeneous Groups
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2.27.24
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Sayash K. et al.
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
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2.21.24
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Tzu-Sheng K. et al.
Wikibench: Community-Driven Data Curation for AI Evaluation on Wikipedia
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2.8.24
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Sarah D. T. et. al
Inspiring Action: Identifying the Social Sector AI Opportunity Gap
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2.14.24
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Lennart H. et. al
Computing Power and the Governance of AI
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4.10.23
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Aviv Ovadya
Reimagining Democracy for AI
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11.20.23
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Stefaan G. Verhulst
Steering Responsible AI: A Case for Algorithmic Pluralism
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6.1.20
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Nathanael F. & Juliana S.
Power & Decision Making: New Directions for Research in the Age of AI
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6.19.24
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Wanheng Hu & Ranjit Singh
Enrolling Citizens: A Primer on Archetypes of Democratic Engagement with AI
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6.13.24
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OECD
Governing with Artificial Intelligence: Are governments ready?
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11.9.24
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Joseph Seering et al.
Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel
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6.14.24
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Thibault S. & Jason P.
Measuring the Openness of AI Foundation Models: Competition and Policy Implications
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3.1.24
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Global Affairs Canada
Decoding Digital Authoritarianism
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11.20.24
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Stefan Feuerriegel et al.
Research can help to tackle AI-generated disinformation
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12.4.24
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Stefaan Verhulst
Urban Artificial Intelligence: From Real-world Observations to a Paradigm-Shifting Concept
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12.1.23
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Lisa P. Argyle et. al
AI Chat Assistants can Improve Conversations about Divisive Topics
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6.17.24
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The YouTube Team
YouTube rolls out new community notes feature, bridging diverse perspectives
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5.9.24
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John Wihbey
AI and Epistemic Risk for Democracy: A Coming Crisis of Public Knowledge?
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5.29.24
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Claudia L. et al.
Users’ Experiences of Algorithm-Mediated Public Services: Folk Theories, Trust, and Strategies in the Global South
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1.30.24
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Davide G. et al.
Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy
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5.30.24
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Andrew Myers
How Bias Hides in ‘Kitchen Sink’ Approaches to Data
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6.12.24
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Wanheng Hu, Ranjit Singh
Enrolling Citizens: A Primer on Archetypes of Democratic Engagement with AI
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6.1.24
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce
Are we raising a generation of AI guinea pigs?
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6.12.24
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Rose Bloomin
What is Plurality?
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6.17.24
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Helene Landemore
Can AI bring deliberation to the masses
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1.17.24
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Loukas K. et. al
Exploring the Design of Technology-Mediated Nudges for Online Misinformation
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6.3.24
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Beth Simone Noveck
The AI Echo Chamber
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4.20.24
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John Wihbey
AI and Epistemic Risk for Democracy: A Coming Crisis of Public Knowledge?
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6.17.24
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Carson Denison et al.
Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models
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5.23.24
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Ravi Iyer
Ravi Iyer believes Apple, Google, and Microsoft Can Help Parents Protect Children
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6.3.24
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Nathan Schneider
Could the future of democracy depend on your group chats?
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5.13.24
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Md Sanzeed Anwar et. al
What are the long term effects of recommendation algorithms?
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5.22.24
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Matt Motyl
Has social media become more (or less) informative in the last year?
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5.20.24
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Micah L. Sirfry
Should we calm down about AI and the election cycle?
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4.1.24
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Benjamin M. et al.
LLMs are being used to automate social science research
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3.19.24
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Melissa Heikkiläarchive
What the AI Act will(and won't) change
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5.20.24
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Will Henshall
Taiwan’s digital minister has an ambitious plan to enhance digital democracy by aligning tech with democracy
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5.20.24
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Cynthia Wade
A new documentary is set to chronicle the journey of Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, as she seeks to transform democracy
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5.20.24
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G Weyl, A Tang +Community
Announcing: The new book "Plurality" by Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and community is now available!
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3.21.24
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The Society Library
Making Decisions About AI — or Anything
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3.5.24
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Matt Motyl
Matt Motyl observes a social media paradigm shift
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4.9.24
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Burnes Center
Audrey Tang discusses new Plurality book
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3.20.24
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Tiago C. et al.
AI and the Future of Government
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3.18.24
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CIP's roadmap to democratic AI
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3.8.24
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Jay Caspian Kang
Jay Kang believes that we are "arguing ourselves to death"
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3.20.24
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Chris Bail
GenAI Could Make Online Conversations More Civil
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2.1.23
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CIP
CIP envisions a collectively-intelligent future
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11.1.23
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Divya Siddarth
Divya Siddarth believes AI and democracy can fix each other
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2.15.24
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Jacob Kemp
AI-powered content moderation to fight online extremism
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2.1.24
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Siddarth, Prewitt, Weyl
The rise of collective provision in a world of supermodularity
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2.9.24
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Tom Cunningham et al.
What we know about using non-engagement signals in content ranking
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2.7.24
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Taylor Sorenson et al.
A roadmap to pluralistic alignment
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6.14.21
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John Tasioulas
The arts and humanities roles in AI
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1.11.24
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David J. Grüning
Promoting online prosocial behavior via digital intervention
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