I discuss the impacts of generative AI and governance of it. (880K+ views)

I talk about how we can govern and align AI using democratic processes, including at global scale, building on the ideas of "platform democracy" through citizen assemblies and "generative CI". I back this up with concrete examples of transnational and global deliberations run by the EU and by Meta (Facebook), and of the UN using AI to support such governance in wartorn Libya. (Starts ~28 min in.)

"Ovadya proposed a method by which tech platforms could resolve tricky policy questions in a way that builds trust among users, rather than undermine it. He calls it 'platform democracy,' and it effectively takes some of the deliberative democracy techniques that have been used with some success around the world in recent years and applies it to companies like Facebook."

"Mr. Ovadya was one of the people who suggested thinking bigger about tech’s influence. He’s a thoughtful critic [...] who also wants to incentivize the industry to make systemic changes."

Dystopian overview of where we could be headed if we do nothing. Millions of views; translated across multiple languages.

Quotes on tradeoffs of privacy, security, portability in the largest circulated English news magazine in India.

Interviewed for both the Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper with the largest circulation in the world) and Mainichi; both published in summer 2018.