BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Denisa Kera DTSTART:20240904T160000Z DTEND:20240904T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260419T092643Z UID:Metagov/212 DESCRIPTION:Title: Experimental Governance Sandboxes and LLM Agent-Based Simulations\nb y Denisa Kera as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nThe present ation and demo will explore how we can "hum" over AI Agents and use prompt s as regulatory artifacts and tools of communicative action. \n\nAgainst t he promises of a "model" Civitas Dei over responsible\, trustworthy\, huma n-centered AIs\, we will emphasize the disobedience of prompts and exploit s to preserve political and social agency. In response to the procedural a nd overly bureaucratic AI governance efforts—such as those outlined by t he OECD\, the EU AI Act\, and various US directives—which we claim lead to regulatory capture\, we propose a return to a more experimental and par ticipatory form of governance. \n\nInspired by the TCP/IP protocol "wars" and principles like "robustness" and "rough consensus and running code\," our project seeks to apply these lessons to manage emerging AI infrastruct ures. We advocate open\, transparent practices and environments\, such as exploratory sandboxes\, which involve a broad range of stakeholders in exp eriments and decision-making processes. This approach contrasts sharply wi th the current emphasis on compliance and (self)assessments that centraliz e power and limit public participation. \n\nOur ongoing experiments with L LMs agent-based simulations aim to demonstrate robust\, decentralized gove rnance of AIs\, ensuring their development remains aligned with democratic values and the public interest\, and preventing the concentration of tech nological power over our common future. How can we save political and soci al agency in an age of closed models that cannibalize and compress the Int ernet into API calls?\n\nDr. Denisa Reshef Kera is the founder of the Desi gn and Policy lab\, Dando.design\, and explores innovative and creative wa ys of public engagement in science and technology regulations. She curren tly works as a Senior Lecturer in the Science\, Technology and Society pro gram at Bar Ilan University\, Israel\, and she is also active as the alter nate AI national expert appointed by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Her global and interdisciplinary work on experimental governance of emer ging infrastructures (open hardware\, blockchain/DLTs\, AIs) is captured i n her book on "Algorithms and Automation" https://www.routledge.com/Algori thms-and-Automation-Governance-over-Rituals-Machines-and-Proto/Kera/p/book /9781032038636. Her academic career over the past decade includes Universi ty of Malta\, Tel Aviv University\, University of Salamanca\, the National University of Singapore\, Arizona State University\, and Charles Universi ty in Prague\, her hometown.\n\nhttps://www.anonette.net/ |\nhttps://githu b.com/anonette/ |\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Denisa-Reshef-Kera |\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/denisakera/ |\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/212/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR