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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator from Vermont

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The future of AI and the fate of humanity must not be decided behind closed doors in Silicon Valley by billionaires seeking to maximize their power and profit. It must be decided by workers, parents, teachers, artists, scientists, communities and the...
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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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The technology’s future must be shaped by people, democratic institutions and society as a whole, not just by the companies building the most capable systems
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Anthropic
AI safety research company

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Public input is critical to ensuring that powerful AI serves humanity’s interests.
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Gerrit W. Gong
Latter-day Saint apostle

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Some AI leaders say foundational AI models are general-purpose tools, not arbiters of values. More reason that neither profit-motivated technology companies nor politically-motivated governments can be left to determine society’s AI moral compass. Pu...
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Pope Leo XIV
Head of the Catholic Church

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We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines — the so-called “alignment” of AI with human values — without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frame...
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Gilad Abiri
Legal scholar on AI governance

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Second, its very comprehensiveness forecloses democratic contestation by resolving questions about AI values, moral status, and conscientious objection that should remain open for public deliberation. Anthropic's own 2023 experiment in participatory ...
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Rob Sherman
Meta AI policy executive

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Technology better serves people when it's grounded in their feedback and expectations. This Forum reinforces how companies and researchers can collaborate to make sure AI agents are built to be responsive to the diverse needs of people who use them. ...
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Prince Sarpong
Finance professor and AI advisor

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The legitimacy of AI systems must rest not on their utility or performance, but on the collective processes that determine their existence, scope, and direction. What is needed is a model of epistemic democracy, and thus a political framework that ex...
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Nathan Sanders
Data scientist and democracy researcher

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I think lip service is probably the right expression to use here, because, you know, there are really interesting projects happening at some of the big AI development companies, on the one hand, to try and enforce rules on their own in a voluntary wa...
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Chloé Bakalar
AI ethicist and governance researcher

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Everybody needs to be part of the conversation. It shouldn’t simply be one person who has a multi-billion dollar company and gets to dictate that this is what’s right for all people. Especially when we’re talking about global technologies that are op...
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Jack Boeglin
University of Pennsylvania law fellow

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Another comparative advantage of legal alignment is that it can piggyback on the stakeholder involvement that already takes place when formulating legal rules and norms. To be sure, law is far from perfect in this respect; it too often fails to be tr...
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Tanusree Sharma
Penn State information sciences professor

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Current efforts to align AI with human values or governing AI models are largely top-down, controlled by big tech corporations and institutions. Design and improvement decisions may be based on surveying or collecting opinions from users, but these m...
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Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain

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The direction of AI is currently determined by a small group of companies [...] We are seeing the construction of an oligarchy that responds solely to its own interests. The governance of artificial intelligence should be in the hands of the people, ...
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Divya Siddarth
Founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project; researcher on democratic AI governance and public participation in AI development

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First, we identify key points in the AI development process — from data collection to training to deployment — where decisions are about values, not just technical specs. Public insight is crucial at those stages. This includes the model’s “constitut...
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Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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But in the future, who should decide where to draw the line and how to weigh the pros and cons? CEOs of companies or democratically chosen governments? The answer should be obvious if you believe in democracy.
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Audrey Tang
Former Taiwan digital affairs minister

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Power to shape a shared vision of AI should not be exclusive to a handful of companies or economies. Collective intelligence processes democratise knowledge and serve as a powerful catalyst for bolstering mutual understanding.
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Michele Gilman
Law professor on democracy and technology

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Public participation is a democratic right. Affected people do not need to know how to build an algorithm to have an opinion on how automated decision-making systems should (or should not) affect their lives. The public and private entities that adop...
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Rayid Ghani
Machine learning and public policy professor

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Because an AI system requires us to define exactly 1) what we want to optimize it for, 2) which mistakes are costlier (financially or socially) than others, and 3) by how much, it forces us to make these ethical and societal values explicit. [...] On...
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Flavio du Pin Calmon
Harvard electrical engineering professor

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I would think that there are certain basic norms that, from a personal perspective, you would expect an AI to satisfy, like avoiding harm, non-discrimination and so on. But while there are some global norms that might be enforced, the question that w...
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James S. Fishkin
Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University; pioneer of Deliberative Polling

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By actively involving the public in shaping AI agent behavior, we're [...] ensuring these powerful tools align with societal values.
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Baobao Zhang
Political scientist studying AI governance

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Key decisions about the future of AI are almost exclusively made behind closed doors by powerful individuals. What if the general public had a say in how AI systems are developed and deployed? [...] The majority of participants want governmental agen...
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Shannon Vallor
Philosopher of AI, Edinburgh

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Just as when Jonas wrote at the height of the Cold War, today the security of the human family hangs on our capacity for wise self-governance and collective political reason in service of shared values. Yet we believe in these things with far less si...
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Tom Wheeler
Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution; former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2013-2017; author and tech policy expert

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The more immediate and tangible risk is the concentration of AI decisionmaking in a handful of individuals responsible primarily to themselves and their shareholders. [...] When a handful of companies make consequential choices about model behavior, ...
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Gillian Hadfield
Legal scholar and AI governance researcher; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute)

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Legislatures and regulators face significant challenges in rapidly translating conventional command-and-control legal requirements into technical requirements. [...] Overreliance on industry to provide technical standards fails to ensure that the man...
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Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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Time is running out. The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want. That means building public will and s...
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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No single person or institution should define how an ideal AI should behave for everyone. To fulfill our mission of ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI needs to build systems that reflect the wide range of values and priorities of all ...
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