Today is a huge day in global #AI governance.

👉G7 Japan leaders agreed on Guiding Principles + a Code of Conduct to make Artificial Intelligence safe for us all.

This will complement our laws when they kick-in ( #AI Act).

Proud to have been part of this journey from day 1 😊

If you think low information voters can rely on cues, shortcuts, or political deference to vote competently, this new paper by Elise Woodard has some pretty compelling objections to that idea: philpapers.org/rec/WOOWWW-5

Our latest paper, in Perspectives on Psychological Science, with Eunice Yiu and Eliza Kosoy, articulating the idea of Large AI Models as cultural technologies at more length and comparing and contrasting with human children
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Pour ceux qui sont à Paris, un événement à ne pas manquer!

Surveiller les effets de l’IA sur l’emploi…et le travail. Ma chronique dans le Monde.

🗺️Entrevista con Hélène Landemore | La profesora de Yale incomodó recientemente a algunos parlamentarios uruguayos en una cumbre celebrada en ese país en la que les espetó: “Ustedes forman parte de una élite educada y privilegiada”
✏️Gabriel Díaz Campanella
🔗elpais.com/america-futura…

Excited to see my interview with Azeem Azhar Azhar come out tonight at 8pm on Bloomberg Originals. Tune in at 8pm to hear more about #realdemocracy #citizensassemblies and #politicswithoutpoliticians !

We will have a graduate scholarship for applicants for D.Phil entry at Oxford in the academic year 2024-25. Open to all disciplines, but the focus of research must be AI, human rights, and democracy. An opportunity to work with me, Hélène Landemore & Dr Caroline Green. More details soon.

Historiens de #France , une question pour vous. Qui était le Chapelain de Landemore et que sait-on sur sa maison (à vendre pour la première fois depuis que j'en ai découvert l'existence). Comment savoir si cela a un lien quelconque avec ma famille? karacterre-immobilier.fr/fr/maison-vent… Merci!

Today Alexis C. Madrigal spoke with Alex Guerrero & Hélène Landemore about 'lottocracy' and other ideas that seek to improve democracy.

🎧 Listen to the podcast episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doi…

My heart breaks for Israelis and Jewish people everywhere. My heart breaks for Palestinian children caught in the crossfire. Hamas is a death cult that will never liberate anyone. I hope some path out of this nightmare can be found, eventually.

Now, what country is this (red color)? It is a big and important country. (Answer in the next tweet.)

Attention political theorists: NYU Gallatin is hiring in modern political theory, with special interest in transnational political theory and/or theory grounded in social movements. I'm the search chair; ask me questions. Apply by Nov 3. Details: apply.interfolio.com/133392

Ah oui, grand moment de la #CCFV , en réponse à un citoyen qui demandait pourquoi cette 2nde convention avait moins de pouvoir que la CCC. Belle illustration de l'arrogance de nos politiciens. Aucune distance théorique, historique ou critique. Conformisme et intérêt de classe purs

My reluctance on Greedflation -- skeptical at first, much less so today -- is officially shattered.

$AMZN used its algo opportunistically during the post-pandemic inflationary surge to aggressively raise prices regardless of input or cost changes...

wsj.com/business/retai…

Incredible. ESG ratings don’t actually measure corporate performance on meeting environmental and social goals, but delude people into thinking that they do. Corporate PR at its worst.

💡À l’Assemblée nationale pour un colloque consacré à la revitalisation démocratique avec Claire Thoury Erwan Balanant Cécile Untermaier Thierry Beaudet !

Avec les amis Noémie Hervé Mina Stahl AgoraLab Frank Escoubes Antoine Brachet Jules Kuhn

A wave of Citizens’ Assemblies has been growing around the world, showing us another kind of democracy is possible.

Zia Khan and I write about why they’re a good idea for the US too 💡

fastcompany.com/90958013/to-re… #delibwave #sortition DemocracyNext The Rockefeller Foundation

AI models are not just black boxes or giant inscrutable matrices.

We discover they have interpretable internal representations, and we control these to influence hallucinations, bias, harmfulness, and whether a LLM lies.

🌐: ai-transparency.org
📄: arxiv.org/abs/2310.01405

Dominique Rousseau : « Une révision constitutionnelle s’impose, sous peine de rendre inévitable une révolution » lemonde.fr/idees/article/…