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Divya Siddarth

9 months

@owocki the thing about AI that people don't understand is that it's got all these risks. but also ! all these opportunities. not to mention the risks. but ! think of the opportunities. but the risks :( but the opportunit

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

guess who finally got their uk visa and won’t have to re-evaluate their life + work + geographic plan and instead will be flying to oxford on sunday, just in time to not lose her dphil place? (it’s me)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

My ‘I love democracy, we need it desperately to effectively govern transformative tech & avoid dystopia, but to do that we must make it almost unrecognizably better via plural systems of collective intelligence + ownership’ manifesto is out in @WIRED ! 1/

To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs to Grow Up

Calls to “democratize technology” ring hollow when both systems seem to be failing. The key is realizing that democracy is not yet in its final form.

www.wired.com

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

some✨personal news✨: i'll be heading to do a part-time DPhil @UniofOxford in the fall ! very grateful for the opportunity to work on the political economy of tech @oiioxford (and continue my career as a digital public goods / collective intelligence fundamentalist)!

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

'How AI Fails Us', out with @SafraCenter today! I am really proud of this work! What started as a conversation with @glenweyl has grown into an incredible collaboration, with @DrDaronAcemoglu @dsallentess @katecrawford @profjamesevans & Michael Jordan. 1/

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

4 months

this is impressive but it's definitely giving 'man builds a woman'

OpenAI

@OpenAI

4 months

Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

Data is not an inert natural resource, like oil, nor is it a commodity to be individually owned, like property. 'Data' is 1) actively produced by people, who rarely benefit from it, and 2) fundamentally collective, and should be stewarded as such.

Radical Proposal: Data Cooperatives Could Give Us More Power Over Our Data

To address the power imbalance between data producers and corporations that profit from our data, scholars propose creating data cooperatives to act as fiduciary intermediaries.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

6 months

Can't believe I get to say this but - my TED talk is live! It's on how AI and democracy need each other. Progress and participation don't have to trade off.

How AI and democracy can fix each other

We don't have to sacrifice our freedom for the sake of technological progress, says social technologist Divya Siddarth. She shares how a group of people helped retrain one of the world's most...

www.ted.com

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

9 months

basking in this brief moment when everyone cares abt the corporate governance of transformative tech as much as i do

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

11 months

I don't have anything brilliant to say about what's happening. I've taught students in Gaza for years. It is unutterably horrifying to see them - at the ages of 13, 14, 15 - preparing for deaths they’ve been assigned by powers they have no way to affect. I feel broken.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

I am giddy to be launching our @collect_intel whitepaper today. It feels like the beginning of the most important work I’ve ever contributed to. And it’s an absurd, extravagant honor to be working on this alongside my dear friends, allies, and intellectual heroes.

Collective Intelligence Project

@collect_intel

2 years

Today, we are publishing the Collective Intelligence Project whitepaper, our R&D agenda for transformative tech governance. It is our contribution to what we see as one of the world’s biggest problems. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. 1/

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

5 months

more than 400k people (?!) have watched my TED talk on AI and democracy - and the reviews are in you, too, could be pleasantly surprised:

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

does anyone know of a book on political / social systems in science fiction? looking at different scifi governance experiments (some that come to mind - the dispossessed, culture series, mars trilogy, terra ignota, star trek, etc. etc.) pls i want to read this so much

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

4 years

1/In the midst of 195+ strategies for COVID-19, Taiwan has captured headlines for its speedy, effective response (<1K cases to date) But this barely scratches the surface of Taiwan's collective, democratic innovations. I discuss these in my latest piece:

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

1 year

Big week: CIP is working with the UK AI Task force, broke my first bone, thinking about safety in multiple ways (AI risk, democratic functioning, not wearing slippers for long walks). Reach out if you're interested in thinking about collective approaches to evaluation!

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

10 months

One of our students was killed today. We've lost touch with most of the rest. This cannot go on.

Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

11 months

I don't have anything brilliant to say about what's happening. I've taught students in Gaza for years. It is unutterably horrifying to see them - at the ages of 13, 14, 15 - preparing for deaths they’ve been assigned by powers they have no way to affect. I feel broken.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 months

✨We're hiring a founding engineer @collect_intel ! DM me if you want to - build and scale social tech - do Real Things to govern AI for public benefit - work with me + @audreyt @saffronhuang @zarinahagnew @NevanHadfield @JoalStein I am so excited :)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

6 months

Paper out on supermodular goods with @glenweyl @m_t_prewitt . There's a lot going on between public and private goods. Increasing returns are going to get even weirder with transformative tech. We have some ideas on what to do about this. (download PDF)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 months

come say hi to @collect_intel at @FAccTConference ! esp if you want to democratize AI or go dancing

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

who wants to start a reading group with me where we read all of these fabulous books in the comments and then write the comparative analysis i was hoping to find :o @j_asminewang @rSanti97

Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

does anyone know of a book on political / social systems in science fiction? looking at different scifi governance experiments (some that come to mind - the dispossessed, culture series, mars trilogy, terra ignota, star trek, etc. etc.) pls i want to read this so much

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

Thinking a lot about the imagined futures built into technology lately. Autonomy, reimagined as automation, is one - a future uniting AI and crypto ecosystems. This piece calls instead for interdependence, reimagined into freedom. @NoemaMag @kelsiemvn

What Tech Futurists Get Wrong About Human Autonomy | NOEMA

The aim to transcend that which makes us human is not the path to serving humanity.

www.noemamag.com

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

Tech discourse has somehow removed the 'democracy' from 'democratization'. The former is fundamentally about power - in a sleight of hand, the latter has been watered down to individual market access. This is a problem - but it's not unsolvable (yet).

Decentralizing AI with Divya Siddarth — The Radical AI Podcast

www.radicalai.org

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

It's out! Via @WIRED @chengela A push from @glenweyl @dsallentess and I: Instead of arguing about achieving *more* decentralization, we should focus on achieving *better* decentralization: rooted in subsidiarity, not redundancy. A network, not a ledger.

The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question

Fixating on the degree—rather than the type—of decentralization is leading us astray.

www.wired.com

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

1 month

if you're in SF tomorrow, let me know if you'd like to come to our last-minute @collect_intel officewarming + book swap :)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

Thinking a lot about techno optimism recently. How can I / we offer an optimism that is meaningful, tangible, critical, real? That both challenges power and dares to dream? This artifact, and the Pluriverse🌌,is the best answer I currently have. Stewarding it has been an honor.

verses

@verses_xyz

3 years

Today, we invite you to read and engage with our second artifact—a call to imagine, steward, and create a digital pluriverse: a world in which many worlds may fit. This work is participatory; we invite you to contribute at 💫

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

9 months

I think it would be a real tragedy if this moment stifled institutional governance innovation in the AI space -- but a real triumph if we used it to innovate *better*. We've just released our work with @OpenAI building towards the latter, and I couldn't be prouder.

Collective Intelligence Project

@collect_intel

9 months

Recent events have made it clear that we desperately need better mechanisms to govern AI - by and for people. There is another way. We’re excited to be sharing the report from our third major Alignment Assembly, in collaboration with @OpenAI . Thread below 👇

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

4 months

i regret to inform you that in the past six months all i’ve seen is ‘the risks and opportunities of AI’ acceleration and there’s no signs of reprieve

Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

9 months

@owocki the thing about AI that people don't understand is that it's got all these risks. but also ! all these opportunities. not to mention the risks. but ! think of the opportunities. but the risks :( but the opportunit

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

1 year

the NYT wrote about @collect_intel !

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 months

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS trilemma: solved intelligence: collective

⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳

@audreyt

3 months

It’s a genuine joy to join @Collect_Intel as a Senior Research Fellow.🙌 Let’s foster #CollectiveIntelligence for the democratic governance of transformative AI & #FreeTheFuture 🖖 — together!

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

6 months

it's my birthday! it's been a very high-low kind of year. if you see this and have a second, i would love to hear about something you find beautiful and hopeful today.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

6 months

I can't believe CIP is hosting an honest to god in real life event in London next Tuesday! Hoping to do more of these :) Come hang out with us! DM / message @collect_intel if you're interested.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

thinking about how to build a world in which optimism feels more accessible. re-orienting work around institutions + infrastructure towards this question: what would need to be true such that technological developments feel like collective progress, not potential catastrophe?

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

11 days

I knew so little of what it would take to build an org when I approached @saffronhuang about working on CIP. Every day since I've been grateful that I did, and even though we won't literally be working off of the same computer any more, I couldn't be more excited about all our

Saffron Huang

@saffronhuang

11 days

Co-founding CIP with @divyasiddarth and building up the org has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life - it's truly been a labour of love, I care so deeply about the mission and team, and the future is bright for this org.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

tl;dr, regeneration >>> extraction, and both infrastructure and language are necessary to co-create towards positive alternatives. such a delight for us at @verses_xyz to be able to think alongside the wonderful folks at @CryptoSocietyS1 @gitcoin

Crypto, Culture, & Society 🍎

@CryptoSocietyS1

2 years

1/ How will the future of our digital lives look? We’ve been reflecting deeply with our friends at @verses_xyz & @gitcoin about the Pluriverse and the promise of a regenerated internet You can read our collective response here:

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

(so excited for our @collect_intel whitepaper launch tomorrow i cannot sleep)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

Have you ever thought to yourself 'Wow, I sure do love Ostrom's eight principles for governing the commons, but I'm really not sure how to apply them to data commons?' Well, do we at the @Ostrom_Workshop @mozilla ever have the framework for you!

A Practical Framework for Applying Ostrom’s Principles to Data Commons Governance

How do stakeholders govern themselves? What drives their endeavour? How do they make decisions? How do they make sure conflict does not tear them apart? The answers to these questions will look...

foundation.mozilla.org

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

9 months

if i have to read another sentence describing the 'risks and opportunities of AI' i am going to scream

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

9 months

not ea or e/acc but a secret third thing (tired)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

Pitting democracy and technology against each other is a huge mistake. We’re in the infancy of our collective intelligence capacities, and we need to level up right now—in a way that is driven by the collective interest, not by privatized central planning. 2/

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

Delighted to see this out @ GreenPilled @BanklessHQ , with @owocki @r_aymondz ! We talk about building new political economies w collectively-owned increasing returns (and why institutions can be good, actually). More on collective intelligence soon👀

Collective Intelligence with Divya Siddarth & Raymond Zhong | Green...

✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podc...

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@divyasiddarth

11 months

Now that this is out I can share my favorite proposed principle, which I do kind of wish we had kept in (although it is not what the people willed).

Anthropic

@AnthropicAI

11 months

What does it mean for AI development to be more democratic? To find out, we partnered with @collect_intel to use @usepolis to curate an AI constitution based on the opinions of ~1000 Americans. Then we trained a model against it using Constitutional AI.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

1 year

reading through the public input responses on our most recent AA re: AI risk and they are so *universally* engaged and nuanced and thoughtful 😢✨ having the opposite feeling to seeing angry / antagonistic posts on twitter - hope for a better collective future

Collective Intelligence Project

@collect_intel

1 year

Announcing Alignment Assemblies (AAs)! CIP is piloting approaches to involve the public in shaping AI's development for the collective good. 🌍 We're working with partners including @OpenAI and @Anthropic on ways to connect the public directly to power.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

5 months

we just realized it's the one-year anniversary of @collect_intel 's weekly standups with @audreyt ! crazy. CIP is nothing without its people :)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

Actually existing AI is the latest attempt in a rich history of failed attempts at 'benevolent' power centralization. Scattershot top-down reforms or minor redistributions won't solve this, but real, sustained democratization can - if we invest in it.

Are We Thinking about AI Wrong?

Divya Siddarth on a better paradigm for AI, and how Taiwan is leading the way on tech governance

towardsdatascience.com

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

4 years

Incredibly grateful to @glenweyl & @lilatretikov , and such an honor to be working with the brilliant M, @vihartvihart , @_evhan55 , and @nothelga ! Super excited for the future (collective technology? decentralized democracy? a job title with the word OCTOPOD? we can have it all!)

⿻(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 🖖

@glenweyl

4 years

So excited to welcome @divyasiddarth as the latest member of the OCTOPOD @Microsoft Office of the Chief Technology Officer!

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

4 years

read our work on arXiv! identity is one of our most fundamental human attributes - and yet, it's being commodified & centralized. subjective PoP approaches are crucial in countering this, and in building towards post-capitalist & democratic governance. @santisiri @_paulaberman

santi

@santisiri

4 years

paper on proof of personhood is out there. very proud to have contributed to this effort. pre-print here:

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

celebrating @collect_intel :)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

10 months

I agree: we need progress, safety, *and* participation for AI governance. Yoshua Bengio and @privitera_ use the @collect_intel trilemma as the basis for AI policy proposals in @TIME . At CIP, we're actually pushing work forward in each of these areas!

How AI Progress Can Coexist With Safety and Democracy

Yoshua Bengio and Daniel Privitera outline policy goals for AI progress, safety, and democratic participation

time.com

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

We will be working to enable experiments in collective intelligence for collective progress at . If you care about these questions and want to work on solutions, please reach out to me + @m_t_prewitt @saffronhuang !

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@divyasiddarth

6 months

it's *so cool* to see fantastic organizations like openfuture and creative commons take on @collect_intel 's alignment assemblies and apply them to actually governing the commons. can't wait to see the results!

OpenFuture

@OpenFutureEU

6 months

"AI should not be used to generate educational resources (e.g., Wikipedia, Oxford Dictionary)." - What do you think? Join our Alignment Assembly on #AI & the Commons to vote on statements like this one and add your own. Register here 👉 #DigitalCommons

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

'Tech exceptionalism is an ideology that has served to give tech companies a competitive advantage by removing the regulatory burden that every other industry must accept. But this is nonsense.'

The Myth of Tech Exceptionalism | NOEMA

How tech uses the promise of endless innovation to ward off regulating even its present-day harms.

www.noemamag.com

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

Finally, deeply grateful to the community and ecosystem of practice that has been my own collective intelligence as we create this— @RadxChange @metagov_project @verses_xyz @joininteract @Ostrom_Workshop @EthicsInAI @HarvardEthics @WeAreNew_Public @moral_imagining and so many more

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

2 years

In 1979, JCR Licklider wrote that if public Internet protocols left out key components to facilitate P2P trust, we would end up with infra built by privatized monopolies. And here we are. But we can do better, and it's an honor to be helping make that happen. Join us!

Ford Foundation

@FordFoundation

2 years

Philanthropy, civil society, and the private sector must team up to support a people-centered internet. The Missing Layers Initiative brings together @DIGI_NewAmerica , @Microsoft , and others to do just that. Ford's @JennyToomey and @Michebox explain how:

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

1 year

it's my birthday today (the full moon!) and if you have fifteen minutes at some point (over the next year) and we are friends i would love to learn something from you to celebrate. ex. something about you, or how to do something you're good at, or a recommended reading, anything

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

thank you @verses_xyz @RadxChange @metagov_project @Ostrom_Workshop @DigCivSoc @WeAreNew_Public @EthicsInAI @exittocommunity and so many others for writing songs of hope with me. (and also technologies and policy proposals and governance diagrams and research papers of hope!)

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@divyasiddarth

1 year

inaugural AI for Institutions @collect_intel @coop_ai workshop in the books! and what a wonderful weekend it has been! institutions: solved AI: even more solved

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2 years

Really great, extremely thorough thread on our @WIRED article by @doctorow . Seeing your ideas be engaged with and explained by a writer you've been reading for years...very cool !!

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (AFK)

@doctorow

2 years

This was on my mind when I came across "The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question," a @wired article by @divyasiddarth , @dsallentess and @glenweyl , two of whom are affiliated with @RadxChange . 16/

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

call me a collective intelligence accelerationist

vitalik.eth

@VitalikButerin

2 years

I'd add that technology for coordinating and coming to large-scale agreements (eg. ) is one of the industries that needs to be accelerated.

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where should @collect_intel work out of in SF ? anyone know any cool, mission-aligned coworking or office spaces w big big windows and a v generous nonprofit discount ?

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@divyasiddarth

3 months

Crucial work from two of my favorite thinkers and people, @glenweyl and @audreyt !

⿻ 數位 Plurality

@pluralitybook

3 months

Now available for purchase via Amazon (), the book has taken two years, dozens of global contributors, the endorsement and support of leaders from every sector, region, ideology, etc. (). Get one today!

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Just presented our paper (w the king, @joyopal ) on social media and social movements at #ictd2020 ! TL;DR: Transforming perspectives online is difficult, esp in India's class-segregated digital space. But! Activists are v resourceful and cool. Read @

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2 years

@owocki Collective intelligence systems enable scalable forms of participation and information input to figure out *what is good* (what should we value, produce, decide, etc.) Decentralized coordination structures enable us to *act on what is good*.

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Divya Siddarth

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2 years

Couldn't be better timing for work on building better political economies. This is what it's all about: Souls, not speculation. Congrats @glenweyl @pujaohlhaver @VitalikButerin , and honored to have contributed. Towards a world of plural collective intelligences!

Puja Ohlhaver

@pujaohlhaver

2 years

1/ A first sketch of Decentralized Society (DeSoc): … Honored to have collaborated with @glenweyl and @vitalikbuterin on what will hopefully become a novel field of research, inquiry, and co-creation across our technological stack.

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so proud to have worked on this! in this time of crisis, paying attention to privacy and civil liberties is more important than ever - as is developing fast tech to help us save lives.

Danielle Allen

@dsallentess

4 years

Really proud to release our 5th white paper in our COVID-19 Rapid Response Series: "Outpacing the Virus" on the pros and cons of using technology to support contact tracing by @glenweyl @vihartvihart @lilatretikov @pde33 @divyasiddarth and more :

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As global crises bloom and risks from technology proliferate, we need *more* collective agency and coordination, not less. This is actually the time to *double down* on democracy, as enabled by technology. 3/

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writing paper titles like OVERPROMISE colon ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳᵈᵉˡᶦᵛᵉʳ

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2 years

i think about this article reliably once a month (this month it was today)

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

4 years

joe biden has many flaws etc. etc. and was far from being my first choice but i cried like a baby hearing people shouting 'we won' and celebrating in the streets in brooklyn this morning collective joy is simply ,, very good

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@divyasiddarth

4 years

proud to have co-authored this! we need to invest in testing + public health, and provide material support for isolation. we need to use COVID investments to save lives now, and to build systems to safeguard them long-term. we need to stay, and feel, safe. this is #HowWeReopen

Danielle Allen

@dsallentess

4 years

Our Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience is out: Testing, Tracing and Supported Isolation TTSI= Trust We need to get to 5 million tests a day to be on our way to mobilizing & reopening economy fully so we can open and stay open. We CAN do this! #HowWeReopen

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4 years

Proud to have co-authored a new paper @HarvardEthics ! It's called 'why we need to test millions', and...it's about why we need to test millions - starting soon. Please read, and advocate for (privacy-preserving, non-discriminatory, targeted) testing!

Danielle Allen

@dsallentess

4 years

Really proud to have released White Paper 6 in our COVID Rapid Response series. This one by @glenweyl and @divyasiddarth "Test Millions" ... on what our targets for massively scaled up COVID testing should be.

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2 years

(it is so lovely that people are engaging w our work which means i still cannot sleep) (i may never sleep again)

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

(so excited for our @collect_intel whitepaper launch tomorrow i cannot sleep)

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Absolutely thrilled that this story @akm1410 and I have been excited about for almost a year now is finally out! Read about how SolShare is trying to help people get power - literally and figuratively - in a world that seems set up to get in their way.

The Morning Context

@MorningContext

4 years

World’s 1st peer-to-peer solar energy-sharing system, the SOLshare box lets you buy or sell electricity. What has been the order in distributing electricity can now be changed. But has it? @akm1410 and @divyasiddarth explore off-grid solar power systems

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work with @collect_intel and @audreyt to *actually* democratize AI (and then democratize everything else) we can and must have progress, participation, *and* safety. alignment assemblies coming soon (👀 @UsePolis )

⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳

@audreyt

1 year

Lots of #Easter eggs in my #SummitForDemocracy address.🐇 AI alignment assemblies embed the key to deepening democracy.🗝 Join me & @collect_intel in reimagining the role of AI via the @UsePolis pilot survey.🌌 ▶️ Let's #FreeTheFuture — together!🖖

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4 years

read our article @CoinDesk and get excited about subjective, intersectional, human-centered identity. let's move from AI realism + surveillance capitalism to collective, democratic sociotechnical systems! more on this: @_paulaberman @santisiri + sergey

Who Watches the Watchmen? A Review of Subjective Approaches for...

Most current self-sovereign identity systems may be categorized as strictly objective, consisting of cryptographically signed statements issued by trusted third party attestors. This failure to...

arxiv.org

CoinDesk

@CoinDesk

4 years

"These are new types of privacy-preserving authentication mechanisms that aim to shield digital networks from identity fraud, a pursuit that could have profound political and economic implications," @divyasiddarth & @_paulaberman write. #internet2030

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@divyasiddarth

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super energized by this panel #BSIC2020 , and all the incredible work on subjective, human-focused identity solutions as an ingredient to truly collective + community-oriented governance!! all credit to @cadamstallard @clesaege @PrivacyGeorge @VinayTaylor @_paulaberman :)

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

And we could have so much more! Now is the time to invest in systems of collective agency, coordination, and action. So we’re also super excited to be (soft)launching the Collective Intelligence Project—you could be our first Twitter follower @collect_intel :)

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@divyasiddarth

4 years

listen to my conversation with @digitaldutta on @SunoIndia_in about tech tools for #COVID19 , and preserving privacy, equity, transparency, and justice in development AND implementation

SunoIndia

@SunoIndia_in

4 years

The #COVID19 pandemic has seen unprecedented steps being taken by countries across the world. Contact tracing applications like #AarogyaSetu are on the rise all over the world. @digitaldutta spoke to @divyasiddarth to know more about these apps. 🎧

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@divyasiddarth

3 years

Got to chat with the inimitable @rushkoff @teamhumanshow about interdependence, being a (good?) pluralist, and complicating the new web1 - good web2 - bad web3 - good narrative that's all the rage these days. + more on the Pluriverse soon 🌌✨

Divya Siddarth | Team Human

Ep. 201 Political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, and a researcher at the RadicalxChange Foundation, Divya Siddarth introduces us to the Pluriverse and challenges us to consider just...

www.teamhuman.fm

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

'We are looking to partner with vital communities centered around...spiritual experimentation, collective study, and social transformation. We will explore how decentralized tools and self-governance practices can make these communities stronger.' !!

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@divyasiddarth

3 years

'Networks are not inherently democratic things. (Nor are they inherently autocratic – both are category errors.) By default, they simply speak the language of power.' Re-reading this great piece by @m_t_prewitt this morning --

Are Networks Democratic?

We are a community of activists, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars committed to using mechanism design to inspire radical social change.

www.radicalxchange.org

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@divyasiddarth

4 months

taking myself for a walk in the sun

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

Everything from dynamic public goods funding to transformative AI governance to pandemic prevention to industrial policy for climate change could benefit from massively ramped-up collective intelligence and collective governance capacity. 7/

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@divyasiddarth

1 year

My best friend @oliviahomer matched today and is going to be an ob/gyn :) As a person who writes google docs for a living I am constantly impressed, inspired, and humbled by her. She's going to deliver babies and save lives! Everyone celebrate the queen!

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

@owocki we at @verses_xyz would love to chat about deeper overlaps with gitcoin / funding the commons models as well (and deep gratitude to @notscottmoore for insights on this as we put together the document!)

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@divyasiddarth

3 years

Great piece by Ted Chiang. Intelligence is not an individual problem-solving and decision-making capacity, but rather an emergent (and collective!) property of many interacting individuals and systems.

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

3 years

The crypto ecosystem has a choice: the path of regeneration, or the path of extraction. In this piece, @Steven_McKie and I make the case for the former, as a matter both of principle and of practice.

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

Of course, getting there won’t be easy—changing power structures never is. Incentive-alignment work, political shifts, base-building, and public advocacy are essential. These are political-economic questions, and must be treated as such. 8/

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@divyasiddarth

1 year

The evidence is in! Collective value-setting can help align AI (and people are good, actually)

Saffron Huang

@saffronhuang

1 year

our @deepmind paper is out in PNAS! we use john rawls' veil of ignorance as a method of choosing principles to align AI 👰‍♀️🤖 participants behind the veil are more likely to choose principles that prioritize the worst off, driven by fairness concerns

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@divyasiddarth

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But we have so much to build from: data coalitions, PETs, AI-augmentated deliberation platforms, forecasting + prediction markets, quadratic voting, DAOs, retroactive funding, E2C and tools for shared ownership, liquid democracy, collective financing vehicles. 9/

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

feeling relentless gratitude for the communities who have held, transformed, and supported me, and for the freedom to imagine and build better collective futures.

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@divyasiddarth

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sam altman ai democracy article a tragic case of using the word 'democratic' when you mostly just want to say 'thing i think is good'

Opinion | Who will control the future of AI?

We must work to ensure that a democratic vision for artificial intelligence prevails over an authoritarian one.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

fabulous article on centralization and internet standards by @mnot . loved the explanation and discussion of centralization (and the limits of decentralization) + distributing power and access via broad implementation and governance. which is hard.

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@divyasiddarth

5 months

i have the coolest friends ! this is incredible work by @lujainmibrahim and Alia. democratic tech requires public understanding, and understanding requires creative + fun + deep explanations like this.

Oxford Internet Institute

@oiioxford

5 months

We're delighted to share a project co-launched by @oiioxford DPhil Student @lujainmibrahim . It's an exciting educational game on rec systems. Take a look at the game here: #MozillaAwardee

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

We all have a stake in the future of surveillance, AI, crypto, space travel, biotech, etc. We’re all going to be affected by the outcomes, by the risks we choose to take and the opportunities we decide are worth the tradeoffs. These are fundamentally collective questions. 5/

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

Ethical *and* productive co-ownership of data is not only possible, but necessary, for the future of AI. So much of my work on data cooperatives and data governance has been inspired by my time with Karya -- truly the architecture of the future.

Manu Chopra

@manuchopra42

2 years

The Time Magazine story on ChatGPT is both deeply disappointing and ultimately, not surprising. Over the last 5 years, we have built Karya: the world's first ethical data company. In the process of building Karya, we have learned some simple truths: (1/4)

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@divyasiddarth

11 months

proud of this + @collect_intel working on building AI for the people

Collective Intelligence Project

@collect_intel

11 months

We teamed up with @AnthropicAI to translate public input from everyday Americans directly into a new collective constitution for #Claude . Yes! The people’s AI is, in fact, fantastic. Learn what we did & discovered about democratic AI. ▶️

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

And we need to make *really good decisions*—which requires eliciting, processing, aggregating, and acting on complex information in an ever-changing world. Collective intelligence systems are really good at this if we build them to be! 6/

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Divya Siddarth

@divyasiddarth

4 years

We have profound, heartbreaking, and enduring injustices in our society. And, as always, the crisis of COVID is only exacerbating them. In this @HarvardEthics paper, we lay out these disparities and discuss a path towards health equity, in the short- and long-term.

Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics

@HarvardEthics

4 years

Our newest white paper -- Who Is Dying and Why? -- is now available online! @rajivatbarnard @divyasiddarth @brandonmterry @NiaMarJohnson @DrMaryTBassett Julie Seager and Meredith Rosenthal

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@divyasiddarth

2 years

Incredible that what started on a whiteboard with @saffronhuang and @j_asminewang has grown into this growing map of pilots and possibility. More incredible still to join a growing ecosystem of efforts in this space, working to make optimistic futures realistic.

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@divyasiddarth

3 years

It's really wonderful to collaborate with principled and community-focused folks on pushing forward work like this! Our identity systems need to be, at base, legitimate, accountable, interoperable, and sustainable. Time to go from walled gardens to the digital commons :)

Alex Simons

@Alex_A_Simons

3 years

Today I introduced Microsoft's Principles for Decentralized Identity - our guide posts for building a #decentralizedidentity service that enables user choice, portability, and control

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