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

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  Rob Sherman

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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. ... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Prince Sarpong

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Gilad Abiri

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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 ... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Nathan Sanders

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Boaz Barak

  Harvard computer science professor; Member of Technical Staff on OpenAI's alignment team

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  I don't think that AI necessarily should always go with the general moral sentiment, but it definitely should guide it and it shouldn't adhere too much to a rigid, rigid ethical framework. AI should have a sense of ethics, which sometimes means makin... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Micah Weinberg

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  Decisions about the design of tools that shape citizen deliberation, such as which voices to surface, how to frame trade-offs, and what counts as relevant information, are effectively delegated to private entities without a democratic mandate or acco... more Unverified source (2026)

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Volker Türk

  UN human rights chief

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  What I hope we would have is inclusive development of artificial intelligence, where power is no longer concentrated within a handful of companies in North America, and that AI development builds on the richness and diversity of all of us in each soc... more Unverified source (2026)

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  Because the future of AI cannot be decided by a handful of countries – or left to the whims of a few billionaires. AI must belong to everyone. [...] The first session of the dialogue in Geneva in July will give every country, and every stakeholder, a... more Unverified source (2026)

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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  John P. Nelson

  Oregon State public policy professor

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  Furthermore, researchers and engineers could engage with citizens and social scientists to align technology design and implementation with public values in the process of development. AI Verified source (2026)

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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. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  key decisions about AI are made via democratic processes and with egalitarian principles, and not just made by AI labs. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Bernie Sanders

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  We can’t allow a handful of billionaires [...] to rush forward with a technology that will fundamentally transform humanity without democratic input or accountability. Unverified source (2026)

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  Pope Leo XIV

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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  OpenAI

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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 ... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Alice Siu

  Stanford deliberative democracy scholar

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  The public deserves a seat at the table where these rules are written, not just a chance to react when they fail. AI Verified source (2025)

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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... more AI Verified source (2024)

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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... more AI Verified source (2023)

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Rayid Ghani

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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... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Smitha Milli

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  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... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Bailey Flanigan

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  AI alignment is a tricky question because I don't think that it is a monolith. One category of examples is when AI is being privately built for a public experience, such as chatbots, recommender systems, or self-driving cars. Another really different... more Unverified source (2026)

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