A fantastic event on Aristotelian #AI ethics coming up in Athens on June 20th. Mark your calendar!

As the FTC moves to ban the use of non-compete agreements, here's a take on how non-competes can impact the labor market, via #Capitalisnt hosts Bethany McLean and Zingales. ms.spr.ly/6013YHjoU

How much power should we give #minipublics ? To what extent should we defer to decisions of an unelected, randomly selected group of ordinary citizens?

Our special issue on DEMOCRACY WITHOUT SHORTCUTS discusses Cristina Lafont's critique of minipublics 🔖

delibdemjournal.org/issue/65/info/

#Stiglerantitrust24 was a fantastic conference, I learned a lot. The answers to my question about corporate governance reform as a possible tool in regulators' toolbox were, however, surprising. 'We're not the right people to answer' & 'It's too hard.' Next year maybe? Zingales

Today at Yale ISPS!

Proud to share the videos of the @YaleISPS conference 'Governing Citizens' Assemblies,' which centered the case of the French #Citizensconvention on #endoflife ( #CCFV ): youtube.com/watch?v=l35m-k… Details about the program here: isps.yale.edu/form/governing…

📅 #Projetdeloi sur la #findevie : session finale de la #Conventioncitoyenne sur la #FindeVie

CESE réunira la #ConventionCitoyenne pour une dernière session les 26 et 27 avril, en présence d'Emmanuel Macron, de membres du Gouvernement et de Parlementaires.

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An update on the proposed bill on assisted dying, which is being discussed by the French Council of Ministers today: lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeu… The #CitizensConvention on #endoflife will reconvene April 27-27 to comment on it too.

An important event and indispensable book! #democratizingthecorporation #democratizingwork #democracy

Great opportunity for early career researchers: a special event on the ethics of #AI organized by my colleague John Tasioulas from University of Oxford The Institute for Ethics in AI in Athens on June 20. Featuring Josiah Ober among others! Very much looking forward to it.

How might AI transform the way we interact with government? What can we do to promote democracy? Join us 4/19: bit.ly/4ayMzii

Shir Raviv Kirk Bansak Virginia Eubanks Kaylyn Jackson Schiff Melody Huang Dasha Pruss Daniel Schiff Matthias Haslberger Hélène Landemore Eliza Oak 🌳 Suresh Venkatasubramanian

This resonates so much, on so many levals. Except the end--unlike Ezra Klein I blame the corporations, not myself! Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You. nytimes.com/2024/04/07/opi…

Happy anniversary to the French #CitizensConvention on End of Life. The (triumphant in my view) concluding day was exactly a year ago!

And here is a story about the 'Governing (with) #AI ' conference we did on the heels of the 'Governing #CitizensAssemblies ' conference last month at Yale ISPS. Fantastic group of scholars and practitioners. We'll hopefully do it again next year! bit.ly/43BUtFc

A great story about the 'Governing #CitizensAssemblies ' my team and I organized for the Democratic Innovations program at Yale ISPS last month. Videos of the panels should become available very soon too. isps.yale.edu/news/blog/2024…

🚨BREAKING: The European Parliament has just APPROVED the AI Act. What everyone should know:

➵ The AI Act follows a risk-based approach. Some AI systems are banned, such as those involving:

- Cognitive behavioral manipulation of people or specific vulnerable groups;
- Social

* Language is low bandwidth: less than 12 bytes/second. A person can read 270 words/minutes, or 4.5 words/second, which is 12 bytes/s (assuming 2 bytes per token and 0.75 words per token). A modern LLM is typically trained with 1x10^13 two-byte tokens, which is 2x10^13 bytes.

Thank you to this brave writer Ian Bogost for putting into words what many of us feel (and act) about email. Liberating to read! theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Thank you Thierry Baudet from CESE for coming to Yale ISPS to debate how self-ruling and sovereign #citizensassemblies should be going forward. Thank you also to Cristina Lafont (philosopher), Myriam Souami (former member of the #CFFV & http://AliCirone.bsky.social, our brilliant moderator.