Divya Siddarth is a political economist and technologist working on participatory AI governance. She is a co-founder of the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), a researcher associated with RadicalxChange and Microsoft Research, and is affiliated with Oxford's Ethics in AI Institute.
Roles and affiliations
Siddarth co-founded the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP). Her affiliations include RadicalxChange and Microsoft Research, and Oxford's Ethics in AI Institute. Earlier affiliations include the RadicalxChange movement, founded by Glen Weyl, which promotes participatory and pluralistic economic and political institutions.
Work on participatory AI governance
Alignment Assemblies methodology
Siddarth co-designed the Alignment Assemblies methodology with Saffron Huang. The methodology sets out four design criteria and uses sortition-based deliberation at scales up to roughly 1,000 representative participants.
Collective Constitutional AI
In 2023 Siddarth ran the Collective Constitutional AI project with Anthropic, training a Claude variant on a publicly drafted constitution. The resulting model was empirically less biased while matching the capability of a researcher-drafted baseline.
Digitalist Papers Vol. 1
Siddarth co-authored "A Vision of Democratic AI" (Digitalist Papers Vol. 1) with Saffron Huang and Audrey Tang in September 2024. The essay frames democracy as applicable to corporate AI governance decisions, not only state decisions.
Relationships
- leads: Collective Intelligence Project (CIP)
- collaborates-with: Saffron Huang, Audrey Tang, E. Glen Weyl
- supports: Alignment Assemblies and Collective Constitutional AI, Constitutional AI, The Digitalist Papers (Stanford, Volumes 1–2)
- related: Anthropic, OpenAI, Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs (moda) — institutional partners