Divya Siddarth
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Collective Intelligence Project
Political economist and social technologist leading the Collective Intelligence Project; previously AI and Democracy lead at the U.K. AI Safety Institute and in Microsoft's Office of the CTO.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues AI development should be steered toward the collective good, with public input and democratic processes shaping how the technology is built and governed.
Accomplishments
- Co-founder and executive director of the Collective Intelligence Project, which runs global public-deliberation efforts on AI.
- Previously a political economist and social technologist in Microsoft's Office of the CTO, and AI and Democracy lead at the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute.
- Held positions at Oxford's Ethics in AI Institute, the Ostrom Workshop and Harvard's Safra Center; graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Computational Decision Analysis in 2018.
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