If AI could bring enormous benefits to humanity, but also threatens to put us all out of work and concentrate economic production in the hands of a few, what should our policy approach be?

AI and other technologies are rapidly evolving, outpacing our institutions’ abilities to address risks and opportunities. Could AI itself be used to imagine and build new institutions, so we can better collaborate, govern, and live together?

We’ve been experimenting with different ways that collective input from society can shape AI development, and are excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Anthropic to pilot one way of doing this: training a model to behave according to a collectively-designed constitution.

Developing more multidimensional, collectively intelligent assessments for large language models is a first priority for AI governance. After all, we can’t figure out what to do if we don’t first know what’s going on.

Explaining the impact of generative AI on democracy and the digital commons at the International Workshop on Reimagining Democracy.