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Founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project; researcher on democratic AI governance and public participation in AI development
Technology shouldn't happen to people. It should happen with and by people.
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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone
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AI Verified The quote argues that technology should be shaped "with and by people," not imposed on them, which clearly implies support for participatory decision-making rather than developers deciding alone. Though it does not mention AI alignment explicitly, it supports the statement’s full core claim of public deliberation over developer-only control. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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AI Verified The quote says technology should happen "with and by people," not "to people," which strongly implies participatory decision-making rather than developers deciding on others’ behalf. That supports public deliberation over AI alignment, though the quote does not mention AI or alignment explicitly. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago

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AI Verified TriplePundit’s July 21, 2025 article contains the wording “Technology shouldn’t happen to people. It should happen with and by people,” and immediately attributes it to Divya Siddarth (“said Divya Siddarth...”); the page resolves to the provided canonical URL, and the stored author and date match. The stored quote differs only by routine punctuation normalization (straight apostrophe/final period instead of the source’s typographic apostrophe/comma before attribution). ([triplepundit.com](https://triplepundit.com/2025/ai-governance-public-input/824156/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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