We call on the UK government to fund binding Citizens’ Assemblies on AI and implement their decisions.
I think this would probably be a disaster, given how misinformed and unwise large parts of the broad public have been on many other scientific issues (e.g. vaccines, GMOs, nuclear power).
The rest of their views doesn’t inspire much confidence in their epistemics either:
Citizen assemblies often involve selecting a small number of delegates who are then informed about the all of the details of the issue in depth, including by expert testimonies, which the delegates have the affordance to do because they’re being paid for their time.
My understanding is that this works pretty well for coming to reasonable policy.
From https://pulltheplug.uk/:
I think this would probably be a disaster, given how misinformed and unwise large parts of the broad public have been on many other scientific issues (e.g. vaccines, GMOs, nuclear power).
The rest of their views doesn’t inspire much confidence in their epistemics either:
Citizen assemblies often involve selecting a small number of delegates who are then informed about the all of the details of the issue in depth, including by expert testimonies, which the delegates have the affordance to do because they’re being paid for their time.
My understanding is that this works pretty well for coming to reasonable policy.