Expert opinions on Digital Democracy

AI is reshaping public services, democratic institutions and everyday life at a pace that has outrun meaningful public input. The Data and AI Exchange was designed to show that when stakeholders are given the time and structure to deliberate seriousl...

I definitely don't think we should align it to a specific philosophical theory that is not really robust for the real world, but actually getting public input for a lot of topics is very difficult because the public has not had the time to think abou...

Federal laws should outline penalties specific to the severity of using deepfakes and election disinformation crimes, as the State of Minnesota has done.

One very, very good deepfake video could make a candidate look horrible [...] Do we need to be arresting people? I don’t really know yet [...]

This bill doesn't meet that bar. It restricts far more speech than necessary to prevent voters from being deceived in ways that would have any effect on an election, and there are other ways to address deepfakes that would burden much less speech.

For years, I've been ringing the alarm bells about the dangers of a national surveillance state built on facial recognition technology. Now, we're seeing Trump's lawless federal agents deploy this technology on our streets across the nation as he tri...

Facial biometrics is the bedrock of what we're trying to do to make sure that we know who the people are that are coming into this country, and that all the vetting and security, the apparatus that we have that goes beyond it, is really compounded on...

We have seen abuse of surveillance powers throughout history, but we have never seen surveillance powers that are as pervasive as what large tech companies have today. [...] Scanning private messages for criminal behaviour could begin to extend into ...

It causes a lot of cases to get solved. It’s another tool we’re now not going to have. That facial recognition can potentially solve homicides, [...]

Normalizing the use of AI in our media ecosystem broadly, but certainly in our political information system, absolutely carries the risk of undermining trust and belief and the trust that is so critical in our information and our media ecosystem.

While there are many problems with this proposal, a few stand above the others and are fatal to this effort. First, the Commission lacks statutory authority to require disclosure or disclaimers on political advertisements that utilize “artificial int...

Instead of putting citizens, humans, in the loop of AI, we need to take them out and put AI into the loop of humanity. Treating AI as an infrastructure for human coordination is more fast, fair, and fun than the colonial alternative.

Increasingly complex AI cases require juries of experts and professional peers rather than a random selection of citizens.