STAI CDT student Mackenzie Jorgensen co-authored the paper, ‘Frontier AI,’ Power, and the Public Interest: Who benefits, who decides?’ which has just been accepted into the Harvard Data Science Review, Special Issue 5: Grappling with the Generative AI Revolution.
Mackenzie became involved with this paper after joining the Data Ethics group at The Turing Institute. She said, “After the recent LLM boom, the group organizers decided to run a meeting discussing foundational AI and members’ thoughts on it. The discussion turned into a paper soon after”.
Power was a key theme in the discussion and in the final paper. As Mackenzie explains, “In the paper, we discussed multiple questions regarding ‘Frontier AI’ and explicitly that we need ‘a fundamental rethinking of the broader political economy of AI and of the global innovation ecosystem which drives its forward progress—a rethinking that recasts this technology as a global public utility subject to democratic control, community-led agenda-setting, and society-centered regulation’”.
This paper is connected to Mackenzie’s interest in AI, its impact on society, and how inequality festers within the AI/big tech spaces and how to combat it.
You can find the ‘Just Accepted’ version of the paper here: