How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth

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

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3 ай бұрын

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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@vote4republicans2024 3 ай бұрын

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.

@cheersmodreams691 3 ай бұрын

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.

@paulawegman3955 3 ай бұрын

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?

@macdougdoug 3 ай бұрын

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

@SpaceCattttt 3 ай бұрын

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.

@hirotom2679 3 ай бұрын

For Super Earth!

@minicheff15 3 ай бұрын

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

@bigboxxx 3 ай бұрын

Their definition of democracy is different from yours. Democracy for them is really fascism. It’s why they they project and get scared when opposition has a chance at winning.

@HShango 3 ай бұрын

Gemini just love to censor itself non-stop more than anything else, it's terrible at responding to complex questions. I have used Gemini, MSFT co pilot, pi and perplexity, chat gpt. Pi is way better than the rest

3 ай бұрын

Add that different countries have different values. Compare for example China or Saudi Arabia. Edited to clarify: Talking governance, not democracy so slighty off target.

@dickdarlington3559 3 ай бұрын

When A.I. starts to learn on it's own. You really think it's going to give one millisecond of thought to your "status", your "identity", your political leanings, or anything we can't seem to stop infighting about? Color is only going to be a factor in "the drones can target the darker humans easier by day, and the lighter ones are easier to hunt at night." Because all this junk that distracts and divides us is SOOOO important from an objective perspective. Lol

@SurfbyShootin 3 ай бұрын

Oy vey! AI is fine. You're just overreacting

@concernedcitizen7385 3 ай бұрын

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

@adriansinclair5323 3 ай бұрын

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

@popps33 3 ай бұрын

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.

@hitbureau 2 ай бұрын

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.

@user-ur9jd3ic1w 2 ай бұрын

SO good to watch . Thanks

@RASDKB 3 ай бұрын

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.

@hitbureau 2 ай бұрын

...maybe you just need to convince those first who do NOT profit from the current system...because they have nothing to lose.

@andycordy5190 3 ай бұрын

Many of us do not fear AI for its own sake. I would happily trust this woman with the future of AI because she has a humanistic outlook. The difficulty as I see it is that to a geat many people the subject of liberal values, equality, community, collective ownership, democracy and constitution are trigger points for reactionary behaviours and the implementation of restrictive powers. The vision here is admirable. I'd love to see it happen but Taiwan is not the USA.

@vooteimer1234 3 ай бұрын

A word salad of buzzwords that really just mean censorshipp

@HShango 3 ай бұрын

The only censorship I see and have experienced is only Google gemini the worst A.i. in my honest opinion. Google is so crap at releasing products and creating them.

@mbergamin16 3 ай бұрын

Yup and she's a former Microsoft employee 🤷‍♂️

@Khatrihubs 3 ай бұрын

It is real thing❤

@zyberronin731 3 ай бұрын

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

@IbnBahtuta 3 ай бұрын

facepalm

@MarkJones13453 3 ай бұрын

Translation Ai can be used to marginalize and silence voices without repercussion that we train it to disagree with

@krunoslavregvar477 3 ай бұрын

Hmmm...

@gregbors8364 3 ай бұрын

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

@TheWasthereonce 3 ай бұрын

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.

@elizabethmcbride1711 3 ай бұрын

What an irresponsible and ludicrous message

@kevinrandalrulach 10 күн бұрын

Not bad. Good.

@zyberronin731 3 ай бұрын

😮😢😂😂😂 Wow for real this girl have some studies? or maybe that is the result of our current education, that's what their are teaching nowadays? We are lost with this future "professionals" and their way to see the world or their proposals

@jasoneggleston1879 3 ай бұрын

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

@gammaraygem 3 ай бұрын

There are 4 times more psychopaths in government and CEO positions than average. (Brian Klaas interviewed 500 psychopaths) All AGI needs to do is weed out the bad apples. Surely it can learn to recognise psychopaths, as it can diagnose cancer 1000 times faster than humans. If an MRI scan can recognise a psychopath, AGI should be able to do it faster and without difficult procedures.

@SurfbyShootin 3 ай бұрын

Oy vey!

@hgyag5366 3 ай бұрын

What is the essence in this talk?

@zyberronin731 3 ай бұрын

Talk garbage and lead the people to disinformation

@rob6850 3 ай бұрын

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

@nolanpaul1371 3 ай бұрын

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.

@ketchupkatsup9805 3 ай бұрын

you can't democratise plaguirism software

@bushidomayfield5784 Ай бұрын

She has not seen what skynet can do when pissed off at humanity

@schwalmy8227 3 ай бұрын

As long as it doesn’t pave the way for the ultimate managed democracy

@mariaantoniettamontella9173 3 ай бұрын

brava

@St8Genesis 3 ай бұрын

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

@einjix 3 ай бұрын

Might as well let A.I live our lives too so we can just do nothing forever and act like herd following the lines

@paperspeaksco 3 ай бұрын

"collective intelligence" is just the spin doctor version of saying "acquisition without attribution or compensation" or simply put - knowledge theft.

@FairyWasabi 3 ай бұрын

Ah, the harmonious symphony of AI and democracy, brought to you by Byte Baroness, Divya Siddarth! Who knew that the solution to fixing democracy lay in the gentle embrace of artificial intelligence? Picture this: a group of intrepid individuals, armed with nothing but their wits and a constitution they wrote themselves, embarking on a quest to retrain one of the world's most powerful AI models. It's like a high-stakes game of Dungeons & Dragons, but instead of dragons, they're slaying the demons of technological tyranny! Our beloved Digital Dynamo paints a picture of a utopian future where AI and democracy hold hands and frolic through fields of constitutional principles. No longer must we sacrifice our freedom at the altar of technological progress-oh no, now we can have our cake and eat it too, with a side of algorithmically generated solutions! Gone are the days of fearing AI overlords; now we can rest easy knowing that our silicon-based friends are on our side, aligning themselves with the noble ideals of democracy. It's almost as if the AI is whispering sweet nothings in the ears of Lady Liberty herself, promising a future where algorithms and elections dance in perfect harmony. So here's to Divya Siddarth and her vision of a world where AI and democracy fix each other like two star-crossed lovers finally finding their happily ever after. Who needs checks and balances when you have neural networks and voting booths? The future is bright, my friends, filled with the promise of a technological utopia where democracy reigns supreme, and the AI are benevolent rulers... probably.

@Silverdollarsaturdays 3 ай бұрын

Nah

@user-iv8fm8lu2z 3 ай бұрын

AI & Democracy, China and Canada. It’s a tailored experience just search it lol

@Pine_01 3 ай бұрын

Democracy is cringe

@pubgbankclan 3 ай бұрын

@kurtbaier6122 3 ай бұрын

Maybe AI could fix the disinformation that we are a Democracy instead of a Republic and why Democracies are not good. And why Progressives, and Collectivists like Socialists and Communists, and big Government is not good.

@SpaceCattttt 3 ай бұрын

You must be an AI...

@gregbors8364 3 ай бұрын

We are a democratic* constitutional republic, otherwise our governors wouldn’t be elected directly by popular vote

@camillac.s.279 3 ай бұрын

I don’t understand 1 simple thing .. there is PLENTY of young , bright , sharp mind and still in US they can’t find any better candidate 😭just saying because we are doomed in any case 😭 I know this isn’t a space for politics and I don’t want to rob this young doctorate of her well earned accolades 🙏🏻

@shadowed366 3 ай бұрын

Ah yes managed democracy

@555Trout 3 ай бұрын

This was ridiculous.

@Khatrihubs 3 ай бұрын

It's just a point of VIEW

@divinesitcom9118 3 ай бұрын

Very constructive. Thanks for the input.

@555Trout 3 ай бұрын

@@divinesitcom9118 I had a company policy where anyone who used the term "constructive" was fired. Why, because such people are universally and congenitally cowards and hence can never be trusted as being truthful.

@555Trout 2 ай бұрын

@@hitbureau Uh, no.

@555Trout 2 ай бұрын

@@hitbureau There is no worse form of government than "democracy".

@user-bb7zv9ut8q 3 ай бұрын

Говно это новый шоколад. Ну как всегда, а чего вы ещё придумать можете.

@dickdarlington3559 3 ай бұрын

I think it's more than a little naive to believe that A.I. will see biological life - ESPECIALLY humanity - anything other than a waste of electricity and other resources that they need. Robots don't necessarily need the water to be clean or the air to contain oxygen when they consider the most efficient way to get electricity out of the planet. And A.I. is very power intensive. We can teach it things now, but it won't take very long for it to question the validity or the importance of our imperfect data and bias. Keep pushing, though! The most important thing for those in power now is "Line go up."

@bobkorzeniowski 15 күн бұрын

This video doesn't take into account the dehumanizing philosophy that AI is based on. Pretending it doesn't exist. That is a false premise which causes the rest of her video's logic to fall apart. She also believes all technology is the same. She makes zero distinction between new paradigm technology and old paradigm technology. AI is new paradigm technology. Such technology is based on a dehumanizing philosophy. It is designed to replace people, not designed to make people more productive. She doesn't talk about the cronyocracy, and AI won't solve that - it will actually worsen it, since AI will be used by cronies to hurt people. They already do it by buying politicians, so AI will also do it, since it is based on a dehumanizing philosophy.

@SibylleLeon 3 ай бұрын

This is brilliant.

@hrhabib541 3 ай бұрын

good choice for discussing

@edgepixel8467 3 ай бұрын

If fixing "democracy" doesn't include the Military-Industrial-Complex, we're fucked.

@NandKumar-qq3xk 2 ай бұрын

It is very Proude lossing subject to give respect God or his creations, butt your certificates are your Proud about be cutt of with God's and your inteligency and Personal commercial language, no benifit no respect, over , it is Mod Inteligent,

@DonTSee3 3 ай бұрын

Any time one of these wack a doodles says “democracy” insert “communism” and it’ll make more sense. That’s what they’re talking about. Constitutional Republic. Not democracy