AI DeMoS:

AI as Deliberative Multimodal Systems

2022-present

AI DeMoS Lab is a collaboration between me and Dr. Olya Kudina, and is part of the TU Delft AI Labs programme.

At the AI DeMoS Lab, we focus on developing AI for democracy. Two questions are key: How does AI facilitate our practice of democracy and the way we understand it? How can we facilitate the responsible design and use of AI systems for a meaningful democratic engagement? Focusing on a variety of AI application areas from deepfakes and GPT3 to social media and digital phenotyping, the research activities of the AI DeMoS Lab aim to contribute to the development of multimodal AI systems that foster deliberation and critical engagement by citizens. This will enable people to take informed decisions under the conditions of the very same deep uncertainty that these AI developments bring forth. 

PhD researchers at the lab explore:

• How synthetic media (deepfakes and GPT3) impact and foster human interrelation and trust (PhD project of Dmitry Muravev)

• How social media algorithms co-shape an ideal of and can contribute to being a good political subject that can thrive in plurality and critically engage with others (PhD project of Jordi Viader Guerrero)

• The ethical, social, and design considerations of digital phenotyping (DP) technology for mental health (PhD project of Karin Bogdanova)

• How algorithmic systems in the city affect political deliberation, and how they can enlarge the space for critical and informed engagement with AI systems needed to support our collective life (PhD project of Meike Hardt)