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AI Needs Public Feedback At Scale Before It’s Too Late
Technologies of disruption are also the platform for social consensus.

TL;DR
- Historical communication disruptions, like the printing press and mass media, eventually led to new forms of social consensus.
- Social media and AI are currently in a chaotic phase, but they are also the most plausible candidates to eventually tame disorder.
- The scale of global connectivity and AI presents an opportunity for unprecedented public deliberation.
- Tech companies possess the infrastructure to conduct large-scale consultations with millions of users on AI.
- AI models currently exhibit biases and may not represent global values; public input is needed for reinforcement learning and accountability.
- A multi-tiered approach involving LLM-mediated consultations, online deliberations, and citizens' assemblies can create democratically written global and local constitutions for AI.
- Tech leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta are urged to utilize their platforms for large-scale public input on AI.