Projects on Boundary Object Studio

Toward Democracy Levels for AI

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:23:40 +0000

Toward Democracy Levels for AI

Author: Flynn Devine

As part of the Pluralistic Alignment workshop at NeurIPS 2024, a paper proposing a “Democracy Levels” framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically. The framework can be used (i) to define milestones in a roadmap for the democratic AI, pluralistic AI, and public AI ecosystems, (ii) to guide organizations that need to increase the legitimacy of their decisions on difficult AI governance questions, and (iii) as a rubric by those aiming to evaluate AI organizations and keep them accountable.

My Voice, Your Voice, Our Voice: Attitudes Towards Collective Governance of a Choral AI Dataset

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:23:40 +0000

My Voice, Your Voice, Our Voice: Attitudes Towards Collective Governance of a Choral AI Dataset

Author: Jen Ding

As part of the Creativity & AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2024, a paper on the Choral Data Trust Experiment as part of the Holly Herndon at Mat Dryhurst exhibition at Serpentine, “The Call” (2024-2025).

The paper explores the opportunity to expand collective governance opportunities for datasets beyond individual opt in/out to enable a more empowering future for creatives in the generative AI ecosystem.

Public AI White paper

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:45:21 +0100

Contributing to a vision of Public AI

Author: Flynn Devine

A collaboration with partners from Metagov and Chatham House to articulate a vision for Public AI in the 2024 white paper: “Public AI: Infrastructure for the Common Good”

London Data Week

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:45:38 +0100

London Data Week 2025

Author: Jen Ding

After a successful London Data Week (LDW) 2023 and 2024, through a partnership with the GLA, LOTI, the Turing Institute, and more, Jen will build up a team of volunteers to further amplify the London data community for LDW25.

The Call for Applications will open in March 2025, but until then, please fill out this Expression of Interest form to share your interest.