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CHM Salon: Tracking the Public Mind: can online discourse be a force for good? W. Powers

Tracking the Public Mind: can online discourse be a force for good? Speaker: William Powers, Public Mind & Center for Humans and Machines, in conversation with Iyad Rahwan Conversation from Tuesday, 21 June, 2022 at the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Abstract: Democracy has always depended on healthy public discourse. Today’s public discourse happens online where 3.8 billion people around the world are speaking up each day on social media platforms about urgent societal issues. But because the platforms are vast and the data complex, most citizen voices aren’t reaching the democratic institutions, media outlets and other organizations that need to hear them. With traditional polling in crisis, it's difficult to obtain accurate readouts of public opinion. This disconnect between public opinion and democratic channels of power has exacerbated social disintegration, political turmoil and a widespread loss of trust in the US and other societies. What if digital technologies could strengthen democracy rather than weakening it? That’s the mission of Public Mind, a US-based tech nonprofit led by William Powers. He will discuss its innovative approach, inspired by an MIT-built AI system, to making the digital public square a more constructive force in the world. About the speaker: William Powers is co-founder and CEO of Public Mind, a non-profit technology organization that’s mapping online discourse about the major questions of our time. A New York Times-bestselling author and former MIT research scientist, Powers has spent the last decade working on ways that AI-driven technologies can reflect human values and enable social progress. He lives in Massachusetts, USA and is currently Visiting Scholar for Humanistic Technologies at the Max Planck Center for Humans and Machines in Berlin. The CHM Salon for Humans and Machines hosts conversations on AI and related topics with prominent voices from science and culture. It aims at including diverging perspectives on the topic of AI and human-machine interactions. It is a conversational format and addresses a broader public interested in the intersection between AI and culture, tech, art, literature, etc. All upcoming and past events: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/chm/ev...