

AI & Democracy Coworking Day (Private)
Door code at moxsf.com is 5589# -- come to the 4th floor!
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Come cowork with other folks thinking about AI & democracy!
If you came to the previous AI & Democracy coworking day, it'll be at the same place with a similar structure for the day, with a few tweaks:
This event is invite-only. If you have a friend or colleague who you think would be a good fit, please email rachel@goldengateinstitute.org.
We're excited to host on a day when the entire global team from the Collective Intelligence Project will be able to join us in SF!
Logistics
Join the Signal chat for updates before and throughout the day: https://signal.group/#CjQKIAbbGwrgcnRYN6ul6kOTDDGORxj79TTCpttfmHxep0MpEhB0EwSZkxcCEjVAfrjC_qiv
We will send the door code to access the space the day before the event.
When you arrive, take the elevator up to the 4th floor.
We recommend bringing bikes inside.
Timing & Schedule
Schedule of optional sessions (check back for additional sessions and timing updates):
9am: Light Breakfast & Coffee
10am: Julie Tsai, AI and Cybersecurity expert, "What Democracy Advocates Need to Know About AI & Cybersecurity"
11am: Helen Lurie and Kai Faust, 3branches.org — product demo and mini-legislative-research hackathon
12pm: Catered Lunch
1pm: Paul Golz, Cornell University, "Social choice perspectives on LLM alignment and deployment"
2pm: Divya Siddarth and Evan Hadfield, Collective Intelligence Project, "Digital Twins for Collective Intelligence Systems"
3pm: Rose Bloomin, Plurality Institute, "Bridging Bot: AI for improving public discourse"
4pm: Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Golden Gate, "Defining The Field of AI And Democracy"
We will also have a board where you can sign up to host unconference sessions.
Why this event?
AI both poses significant challenges to democracies, and provides opportunities for better governance. If you're reading this, you are probably part of a nascent field of experts in either democracy or AI who are interested in topics like the following:
Using AI to bolster democratic institutions
The threats that advanced AI might pose to democracies (surveillance, concentration of wealth, disinformation, etc.)
Ensuring that the path of advanced AI builds power for democracies instead of autocracies
Governance of AI companies
We want to build a community of practice in San Francisco around these intertwined issues.
Hosts
This event is co-hosted by the Golden Gate Institute for AI and the Collective Intelligence Project.
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Journalists: You are welcome to attend, but conversations at this event are off-the-record unless otherwise stated.