How AI Can Help Democracy Work Better

Today on the AI Daily Brief, how AI can help democracy work better. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, robots and pencils, Blitsy, and Superintelligent. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on our podcast. If you are interested in sponsoring the show or wanna know really anything else about the broader AIDB ecosystem, check it out at aidailybrief.ai. All All the fun things we've got cooking are always going to be listed there. Now today, we are doing something which I hope to be able to do a lot more of in the months to come. It is quite clear at this point that AI is rising in significance as a broader societal and political issue. More and more people are understanding that it's going to impact them at work, impacts at work are understood to be impacts on the economy, and things that impact the economy are understood to be political inherently, whether we'd like them to be or not. Now in this climate, a lot of the reactions and emergent political discourse is quite negative. It's increased chatter about x risk, declarations and proposals for moratoriums on data centers. And even among those who reject those policies, it sometimes feels like every day a new politician pulls a new number out of a hat to get press for how many people they think that AI is going to unemploy. And yet, believe it or not, not everyone is so dreary about what AI can mean for the world. I think it's likely that as the negative discourse increases, we also start to see some voices emerge who are telling a different story. Now as you well know, we have these long reads slash big think type episodes every weekend, which is a great chance to highlight some of those voices. Today, we are doing a good old fashioned actual long read, reading a piece from Stanford professor, Andy Hall. Andy wrote an essay that we are going to read a number of excerpts from called Building Political Superintelligence, and he introduced it on Twitter in this way. He writes, amidst understandable concerns of AI dystopia, no one is offering a positive vision for how we can use AI to remake our institutions and reinvent how we govern. That's what I try to offer today. My argument is that we need an explicit research agenda to build political superintelligence. The window for building these structures is narrow, and the right response is not to slow AI down, but to speed up how fast we build the institutions that keep us free as AI grows more powerful. He ends his tweet with the quote that actually begins his essay, as Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, we have it in our …