Saffron Huang

But what if everyday people could retrain AI from the ground up to help improve one of our most important systems of government? I'm Sherrell Dorsey, and this is TED Tech.

Today, we hear from Divya Siddharth, a political economist, social technologist, and co-founder of the Collective Intelligence Project.

And she believes that AI can be a transformative technology that can align with the principles of democracy.

Let's listen in.

It is an early form of collective intelligence.

a way to put together decentralized input from diverse sources and produce decisions that are better than the sum of their parts.

That's why, when my fantastic co-founder Saffron Huang and I left our jobs at Google DeepMind and Microsoft to build new democratic governance models for transformative tech, I named our nonprofit the Collective Intelligence Project as a nod to the ever-evolving project of building collective intelligence for collective flourishing.

Since then, we've done just that, building new collective intelligence models to direct artificial intelligence, to run democratic processes, and we've incorporated the voices of thousands of people into AI governance.