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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
Divya Siddarth
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Divya Siddarth
@divyasiddarth
collective intelligence accelerationist @collect_intel
- 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)
- Co-founder mode :) So honored to have our work on collective intelligence and democratic AI be recognized by @TIME in the #TIME100AI list this year.
- 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/
- 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)!
- 'How AI Fails Us', out with @SafraCenter today! ethics.harvard.edu/how-ai-fails-us 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/
- 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.
- this is impressive but it's definitely giving 'man builds a woman'Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: openai.com/index/hello-gp… Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.
00:00 - 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.
- unlike u all i am not worried that 'humanity is cooked' bc i know a secret (there is infinite beauty and goodness in each person regardless of their output)
- basking in this brief moment when everyone cares abt the corporate governance of transformative tech as much as i do
- 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.
- 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.
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/ cip.org/whitepaper - more than 400k people (?!) have watched my TED talk on AI and democracy - and the reviews are in you, too, could be pleasantly surprised: ted.com/talks/divya_si…
