Alignment Assembly on AI and the Commons
Open Future,
Feb 08, 2024
As this website reports, "Open Future will host an asynchronous, virtual alignment assembly for the open movement to explore principles and considerations for regulating generative AI." I find the approach fascinating. " We will use the process of an alignment assembly, an experiment in collective deliberation and decision-making. This model is pioneered by the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP)." Here's the CIP White Paper on the process. I agree with the assertion that traditional democratic processes are unable to obtain genuine public sentiment on complex issues, but I worry that circumventing a truly democratic process simply grants excess voice and influence to commercial interests (eg. as suggested by "mixed public goods funding models"). I've signed up and will participate if I can. There needs to be some alignment between an open commons and open AI; simply drafting top-down principles at an in-person 'summit' (as Creative Commons has done) is too high-handed and undemocratic a process to rely upon, even if the rest of us (maybe) get a 'vote' on them some day. Via Paul Stacey. Related: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Open Source AI: Opportunities and Challenges.
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