About the event
In the sixth episode of ALIGN webinar series, we invite Evan Hadfield, Projects Director of the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) and a specialist in Human Computation.
Before joining the CIP, Evan has worked at Twitter and Clara Labs as an engineer and a human computation data analyst. As an Projects Lead, Evan focuses on research and development of decision-making technologies, processes, and institutions that expand a group’s capacity to construct and cooperate towards shared goals.
Collective Intelligence attempts to optimize all elements of “transformative technology trilemma”: participation, progress, and safety, effectively overcoming problems and limitations seen in capitalist acceleration, authoritarian technocracy, and shared stagnation
We will hear from Evan about ways to democratize AI. Questions that would be explored include “What approach has/will Collective Intelligence Project taken/take to understand conflicting values of diverse groups of people?”, “How we can remake technology institutions to become “collectively intelligent”?”, and “What are challenges and opportunities of expanding the ethos of Collective Intelligence to a larger parts of the world?”. The talk will be valuable not only for the future of AI ethics but also for reconsidering the relationship between technology and democracy.
Date: Friday, 28 June 2024 10:00 am-11:00 am (JST) = Thursday, 27th 6:00 pm - 6:55 pm (PDT)
The talk (including the discussion part) will be recorded and maybe posted on ALIGN’s Youtube Channel.
日時：2024年6月28日（金）10:00 am-11:00 am (日本時間)
英語のイベントです（質疑は日本語でも可能）。
イベントは議論部分を含めて録画のうえ、ALIGNのYoutubeチャンネルにて公開する可能性があります（未定）。
Agenda
10:00-10:05 House keeping from ALIGN/AI Alignment Talk from Japan
10:05-10:35 Evan Hadfield on AI and Democracy
10:35-10:55 Q&A and discussion with participants
10:55- closing
Selected reading
Evan Hadfield https://cip.org/about
Mormon Transhumanist Association Conf 2024 “Collective Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence”
The Collective Intelligence Project “A Roadmap to Democratic AI” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/631d02b2dfa9482a32db47ec/t/65f9a1296f1a357e918f7a58/1710858559931/CIP_+A+Roadmap+to+Democratic+AI.pdf
On Collective Constitutional AI
Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety, CNAS (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15324
Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks, DeepMind (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03718
Generative AI and the Digital Commons, CIP (2023) https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/publications/how-ai-fails-us
Also listen to
The Technology We Need for Democracy, Your Undivided Attention with the Co-founder of Collective Intelligence Project, Divya Siddarth
Data Cooperatives Could Give Us More Power Over Our Data, Human-Centered AI Center Fall Conference, Stanford University
Intended Audience
Anyone interested in AI Alignment/AI Safety research (not necessarily currently engaged in it).
Our hope is to invite many audience based in Japan and discuss field-building activities in the Japanese context, but nevertheless we welcome access from around the world.