Inclusive.AI
A ChatGPT Plugin and DAO to Engage Marginalized Groups in AI
In this project, we set on developing a ChatGPT plugin that enables DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) mechanisms to promote an ChatGPT-facilitated democratic decision process. This decentralized decision process will allow diverse marginalized populations, such as teenagers, people with disabilities, people of color, and people from the Global South, equal access to major decision makings and produce better decisions for communities and society at large.
High Level Questions
How far do you think personalization of AI assistants like ChatGPT to align with a user's tastes and preferences should go? What boundaries, if any, should exist in this process?
How to effectively engage vulnerable groups (e.g., teenegers, people with disabilities, people of color, and people from Global South) in making democratic decisions about AI?
We chose to focus on these questions mainly because they have direct, foreseeable impact on our target
populations (i.e., teenagers, people with disabilities, people of color, and people from the Global South). We have
worked closely with our target populations in past/ongoing research. We aim to include diverse voices in the
decision-making process and ensure that AI rules are inclusive and equitable.
Our target populations are marginalized groups that could be disproportionally affected by these rules. Our
broader goal is to inform AI developers, researchers and practitioners on how to navigate these thorny questions
by considering inputs from these marginalized groups. Our expected results could also change how AI tools will be
developed or at least configured so that our target marginalized groups will not be further marginalized because of
AI
Motivation
In our previous work, we conducted an empirical analysis of a diverse set of DAOs (100+) of various categories and smart contracts, leveraging onchain (e.g., voting results) and off-chain data (e.g., community discussions) as well as our interviews with practitioners. Specifically, we defined metrics to characterize key aspects of DAOs, such as the degrees of decentralization and autonomy for future DAO or related governance systems based on our findings.
Building on the insights about DAO governance from our systematic analysis, we
plan to develop mechanisms that can seamlessly integrate with AI (e.g.,ChatGPT) allowing users to actively participate in the
democratic governance decision-making process.
In particular, the DAO-like mechanisms will inform the development of AI system.
