Can 'we the people' keep AI in check? • TechCrunch

Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn't sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plausible means of keeping it in check might just be entrusting those who will be impacted by AI to collectively decide on the ways to curb it. That means you; it means me. It's the power of large networks of individuals to problem solve faster and more equitably than a small group of individuals might do alone (including, say, in Washington). In Taiwan, for example, civic-minded hackers in 2015 formed a platform -- "virtual Taiwan" -- that "brings together representatives from the public, private and social sectors to debate policy solutions to problems primarily related to the digital economy," as explained in 2019 by Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang in the New York Times. Since then, vTaiwan, as it's known, has tackled dozens of issues by "relying on a mix of online debate and face-to-face discussions with stakeholders," Tang wrote at the time.