How could the Great American Debate program be possible in a closed knowledge society? In short - it really can't.

Is an #openknowledge society the way towards #BigDataDemocracy and societal-scale deliberation?

Wow! We have received such an amazing response to our ED's latest talk at FWD50. 📣 In it, she discusses #BigDataDemocracy, #BigDataDebate, & how to make more logical decisions at the local gov level by using models. Thank you for all the praise and for the platform, fwd50!

Our Founder, Jamie Joyce, will be hosting the Internet Archive's annual event tomorrow! It's not too late to join in! Join in-person: eventbrite.com/e/building-dem… Join online: eventbrite.com/e/building-dem… We hope to see you there!

The Society Library team received funding to map AI Alignment / Safety / X-Risk debates - and we're using AI to help. Read the update here: societylibrary.org/society-librar… #AI #AISafety #Xrisk

The Society Library was invited to participate in the Congressional Hackathon. Our work will be presented onstage at the U.S. capital today. We couldn't be there in person, but thankfully @thorningmichael from Bipartisan Policy Center is stepping up to present on our behalf. Thank you so,

We The Society Library 📖 have mapped thousands more arguments to add to the <> Connor Leahy debate using AI! Here's a walkthrough of our maps. Link to the interactive website below, feedback is welcome! 🔽

Want to vote on the strength of arguments in the debate maps we built about the <> Connor Leahy discussion from Machine Learning Street Talk? Thanks to Mon.iq 🌪️ /dd's request, now you can! Click on "agreement" on each node to add your input on an adjustable Likert scale! Thanks

🗺️New AI Map 🗺️ "How far do you think the personalization of AI assistants (like ChatGPT) to align with a user’s tastes and preferences should go?" ▶️ head over to view and vote! 🗳️societylibrary.org/ai-debate-blog…

✍️This one has some references, too (really, just the beginning). This question was inspired from OpenAI's Democratic Inputs to AI Governance Challenge.

➡️After the Google Gemini story about it resisting generating images of white people, it begs the question: What should the policies be regarding how AI generates images of people? There are many points of view and we don't shy from the controversy. >> ➡️See the The Society Library 📖

🗺️What are the potential societal benefits and risks of aligning human beliefs and behaviors using AI? ▶️ Inspired by George Hotz 🌑 and AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ ▶️ 11 Positions, thousands of points. Remember to vote! 🗳️Here's the link to the maps: societylibrary.org/ai-debate-blog… (Excuse

It is not infrequent that I have to try and reframe people's misperceptions of why we use debate maps at the The Society Library 📖. It's not because we want to make these maps 'a thing.' It's because 'debate-checking' is the logical end of 'fact-checking.' If you are 'proving' one

Grateful for the invite, can't wait!

Heard of the news about OpenAI's NSFW policy considerations? 🚫 Here's a Debate Map with 13 positions on what ChatGPT should do when users request NSFW content: societylibrary.org/ai-debate-blog…

Should X hide likes on posts? 🤔 We’ve used the The Society Library 📖 AI Debate Map tool to predict the main positions in this debate (see 🧵below). Today is an experiment to see if it is worthwhile to create a central place to argue different POVs on X. Feedback on this format

Political matters are complex. We need to build tools to make it easier to search for truth at the civilization-scale. Check out the The Society Library 📖 Papers interface, which nests a dynamic wiki page for every sentence in an interactive briefing document.

Sometimes we want to see/hear different points of view on the questions we have - personal, professional, or on current affairs. 👥 The The Society Library 📖 team made this little tool to see multiple views at the press of a button. We call it "Perspectives." Let us know if you want

Looking forward to this, and in general I have been continuously heartened by Canada's ongoing interest in the govtech sector.

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