AI and Democracy
This starter pack includes leading scholars, technologists, and advocates who will be participating in Knight Institute initiatives relating to artificial intelligence and the risks advanced AI systems pose to democratic freedoms.
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@chenoweth.bsky.social
Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
@sethlazar.org
Philosopher working on normative dimensions of computing and sociotechnical AI safety. Lab: https://mintresearch.org Self: https://sethlazar.org Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@katygb.bsky.social
Research Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
@nadinefj.bsky.social
Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University | Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Center for International Policy. Opinions mine.
@joshuadarr.bsky.social
Associate professor, Newhouse School @ Syracuse. Senior Researcher, Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship. New book: Storefront Campaigning https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009443357 I study local media and elections. Past: LSU, Penn, BC.
@sachaltay.bsky.social
🔎 Misinformation, social media & the news 🗞️ 🇨🇭 Postdoc at the University of Zurich, previously Reuters Institute & ENS 🇫🇷
@lukethorburn.com
Algorithms ∩ Conflict • PhD candidate • King's College London • lukethorburn.com
@hlntnr.bsky.social
AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
@sydneylevine.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist working at the intersection of moral cognition and AI safety. Currently: Google Deepmind. Soon: Assistant Prof at NYU Psychology. More at sites.google.com/site/sydneymlevine.
@lujain.bsky.social
currently @ oxford internet institute | always: in and out of Abu Dhabi
@ghadfield.bsky.social
Economist and legal scholar turned AI researcher focused on AI alignment and governance. Prof of government and policy and computer science at Johns Hopkins where I run the Normativity Lab. Recruiting CS postdocs and PhD students. gillianhadfield.org
@peterhenderson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor leading the AI, Law, & Society Lab @ Princeton 📚JD/PhD @ Stanford
@kjfeng.me
PhD student at the University of Washington in social computing + human-AI interaction @socialfutureslab.bsky.social. 🌐 kjfeng.me
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@atoosakz.bsky.social
societal impacts of AI | assistant professor of philosophy & software and societal systems at Carnegie Mellon University & AI2050 Schmidt Sciences early-career fellow | system engineering + AI + philosophy | https://kasirzadeh.org/
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