How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED

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 powerful AI models on a constitution they wrote — and offers a vision of technology that aligns with the principles of democracy, rather than conflicting with them.

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[cheersmodreams]

We can only hope and wish her voice and perspective would become a dominate force in the future of AI and Technology. But our education system here in America does not create a citizenry with an understanding of truth and moral democratic behaviours. Instead technology, and soon AI, through the proliferation of social media platforms, has created a citizenry of doubters and misbelievers who would not recognize a fact or statement of truth if they bit them in the 'you know where'. One only needs to look at our politicians, who were raised in our education system, and their disdain for truth and democracy simply because it gives them their political power.

[paulawegman]

I felt like the talk had a lot of big pre-made sentences without developing further. If you want to make people understand why this idea could work, don't just say what can and has and could be done, show it. Show examples, processes. If it's confidential, is it really democratic?

[SpaceCattttt]

What is she even talking about?? Are we supposed to completely surrender to AI models and accept that we cannot live together in social harmony
unless our decisions are made for us by computers?? Like your average politician, she said a lot without actually saying anything. It was all slogans
and buzzwords. She may as well have said nothing at all, and it would've been just as meaningful.
I did catch a whiff of censorship in her words, though, and I don't see how that could possibly be compatible with a "democratic" society in which
everyone gets to decide what's best for the majority. Especially not if AI models are really making the decisions.

This TED talk confused me. It seems to mean nothing. It's an iPhone ad. Streamlined, airbrushed and empty.

[voterepublicans]

One of these days advertiser's are going to figure that robots and ai don't buy stuff. People without money don't buy much either.

[minicheff]

This seems like a bad idea since AI can be biased from the creators. Take a look at the AI of Google.

[hitbureau]

Given the sheer amount of negative, unfounded, randomly critical commentary that does not really relate to the content of the speech, this is probably one of the most powerful and so far most underrated TED talks ever.

[vooteimer]

A word salad of buzzwords that really just mean censorshipp

[zyberronin]

Real Democracy never exist as a 1st point, and as a software engineer, this is the most $tup1d thing I have listen about AI topics, software is manageable by their creators and they can handle it as they want, so what does it means? That AI can be guided through any agenda or company that can afford they "payment", otherwise any software is perfect, all of them have vulnerabilitys, in other words, can be hackable. It's a shame how technology can help a very few percentage to progress and to evolve with a good and safe use, but the most part are like this girl, depends completely blinded by technology make us year by year more useless and noncritical people, at the point that people lost any ability to do anything by their own achievements, for their dependence to any technology.

Example: Google AI

[elizabethmcbride]

What an irresponsible and ludicrous message

[macdougdoug]

"Over-reliance on systems we don't understand" thats just a description of life in general.

[popps]

For Managed Democracry!! For Super Earth!! hahah! On a serious note, there is great technology for democratic processes. Our hurdle is that it is a leap and as she says it is young within our civilization. There is really cool technology like Episode 4 of "This Giant Beast that is the Economy" features Swarm Intelligence AI that aggregates collective choice. You can look up Louis Rosenberg of Unanimous AI.

[jasoneggleston]

This isn't just nonsense, it's very dangerous nonsense. Don't let people like this anywhere near power.

[adriansinclair]

Look at cardano and CIP 1694 - An On-Chain Decentralized Governance Mechanism

[concernedcitizen]

Translation:
AI can be used to bolster the busted and broken dystopia that ‘democracy’ offers.

[TheWasthereonce]

Ugh I'm tired of tech people treating others more like data than actual people. It's dehumanizing and will formulate how AI is developed.

[rob]

Can AI fix Commerce? Maybe.
Can AI fix Democracy? By definition, no.

[gregbors]

Remember “Battlestar Galactica, ” where the Cylons had that one human being they kept alive as a useful tool? She’s like that guy.

[RASDKB]

If you want to switch from one system to another you‘ve got to convince those who profiteer from the system itself you wanna move away from.

[StGenesis]

These Ted talks are so crap now, I remember when they were actually good

[nolanpaul]

She has great points, but I consider this the equivalent too: “hey everyone we could have a way better society if we used are capabilities for good”. Like we absolutely could but those in power don’t want that and they won’t allow AI to be used too give the populace control over our own society because the elites wouldn’t benefit from that. I appreciate her enthusiasm though. interesting talk.