Breaking News: AI and Democracy

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

While there has been much discussion of issues of bias, discrimination, and X-risk related to generative foundation models and the potential emergence of Artificial Generative Intelligence, conversations are still nascent about how AI challenges the stability of democratic political systems or can be tapped to help overcome current pain points in the functioning of democratic institutions. The panel will address these themes, with special emphasis on the opportunities for democracy introduced by generative foundation models.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Chair

• Rob Reich Stanford University

Presenters

• Alondra Nelson Columbia University and the Social Science Research Council

• Amba Kak AI Now Institute

• Ro Khanna U.S. House of Representatives

• Nathaniel Persily Stanford University