Proposing a People's AI Constitution Council for Democratic Oversight of Transformative AI
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Kevin Frazier
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Kevin Frazier proposes a "People's AI Constitution Council" as a novel democratic mechanism to provide popular oversight and participation in drafting and revising AI constitutions—the value documents that guide frontier AI models like Anthropic's Claude. The article argues that as AI becomes more powerful and transformative, the process of defining AI behavior and values should not be left solely to private companies but should involve broader democratic input and legitimacy.
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· 3 pulledClaude's constitution and equivalent documents at leading AI labs inform the behavior of the most powerful technological tools deployed by humanity.
To the surprise of some, these constitutions are very effective.
A People's AI Constitution Council might represent the novel approach necessary to meet the unique democratic demands of transformative AI.
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