Prepared for Knight Research Network Forum in Miami
Alice’s slide deck [Google Slides]
AI as Illiberal
- AI’s alarming turn towards illiberalism – Ami Fields-Meyer and Janet Haven, Foreign Policy October 2024
- The Illiberal Public Sphere, Václa Štětka and Sabina Mihelj 2024
Community & Participatory Governance of AI
- Enrolling Citizens: A Primer on Archetypes of Democratic Engagement with AI – Wanheng Hu and Ranjit Singh, 2024
- Democratizing AI: Principles for Meaningful Public Participation – Michele Gilman, 2023
- Gear Shift: Driving Change in Public Sector Technology through Community Input – Meg Young with Sarah Fox, Vinhcent Le, and Oscar J. Romero Jr.
- Shaping AI Systems By Shifting Power: Why we need participatory methods in AI – Meg Young, Iretiolu Akinrinade, Ania Calderon, Rigoberto Lara Guzman, Tunika Onnekikami
- Red-teaming in the Public Interest – Ranjit Singh, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, Carol Anderson, Emnet Tafesse, Briana Vecchione, Beth Duckles, Jacob Metcalf – 2025
Exporting US Tech Stack
- The Big AI State: How the Trump Administration Is Shaping US Industrial Policy Toward “Global Technological Dominance” – Brian Chen, 2026
Automated Austerity
- Data & Society Statement for the Record at a Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on “The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” – Alice Marwick, Brian Chen, Jake Metcalf, Meg Young, Serena Oduro, 2025
- AI Can’t Solve Government Waste — And May Hurt Vulnerable Americans – Kevin De Liban and Alice Marwick, 2025
- Inescapable AI: The Ways AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive – TechTonic Justice, 2025
- Using AI to Reform Government is Much Harder than it Looks – Ben Green, 2025
- And of course… Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks, 2018
Technofascism
- See the Tech Policy Press / D&S series on “Ideologies of Control: A Series on Tech Power and Democratic Crisis”
- The Nerd Reich, newsletter & upcoming book by Gil Duran
- Headed for Technofascism: The right-wing roots of Silicon Valley – Becca Lewis, 2025
Alternate Models of AI
- AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares – Beth Goldberg, Diana Acosta-Navas, Michiel Bakker, Ian Beacock, Matt Botvinick, Prateek Buch, Renée DiResta, Nandika Donthi, Nathanael Fast, Ravi Iyer, Zaria Jalan, Andrew Konya, Grace Kwak Danciu, Hélène Landemore, Alice Marwick, Carl Miller, Aviv Ovadya, Emily Saltz, Lisa Schirch, Dalit Shalom, Divya Siddarth, Felix Sieker, Christopher Small, Jonathan Stray, Audrey Tang, Michael Henry Tessler, Amy Zhang, 2024
- Audrey Tang talking about Taiwan, AI, and democracy