Toward Democracy Levels for AI

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.