2024-09-08-Technology to Support Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/live/kSWQpychN50

• Recent updates after two months since the election of the Governor of Tokyo｜Takahiro Yasuno 2024-08-31

• nishio I will be on the Yasuno Channel to get it to 100,000 subscribers! slide: [20240908_Technology for Democracy - Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g76UaPUQjb7ndkrNSGRcbXziUtFkvg1Wt2lk0ZzRDTo/edit# slide=id.g2fd80358a73_14_0]

This delivery features Yasukazu Nishio as a guest discussing "Technologies Supporting Democracy". The main contents are as follows

• The concept and importance of broad listening:
  • Techniques for efficiently aggregating and understanding many opinions
  • AI and LLM developments have made it feasible
• Talk to the City (TttC) tool:
  • AI summarizes and visualizes a large number of opinions
  • actually utilized in election campaigns and other activities.
• Comparison with the tool Polis:
  • Older systems for collecting and clustering votes for and against an opinion
  • Possibilities for next-generation tools that combine the advantages of TttC and Polis
• The Impact of Technology on Democracy:
  • AI and the Internet could change the nature of democracy
  • More efficiently aggregate and understand the opinions of a larger number of people
• Future Outlook:
  • The development of AI has the potential to drastically change society and the nature of work.
  • Potential for new services and disruptive innovation
• The importance of equitable dissemination of technology:
  • As many people as possible should be able to benefit from AI.
  • Possibility of equitable dissemination based on the characteristics of digital technology

Overall, there is extensive discussion of the impact of technological advances on the nature of democracy and social structure.

The main topics and their starting times are listed below:

• Mr. Nishio's self-introduction and profile: from approx. 2:30
• Conceptual Explanation of Prality and Broad Listening: from approx. 19:30
• Introduction and explanation of the Talk to the City (TttC) tool: from approx. 42:50
• Description of Polis tool and comparison with TttC: from approx. 1:05:00
• Opinion Cluster Visualization for Japanese Diet Members: from about 1:16:50
• On AI and the Future of Democracy: from approx. 1:28:20
• Announcement of future delivery schedule: from approx. 1:24:40

Comment

• Signal control with AI, introduced into actual operation in 2023, I found it easily using Google.

  • AI-based traffic signal control, traffic jam countermeasures in Tokyo, introduced by the Metropolitan Police Department for the first time in Japan - Nihon Keizai Shimbun

• I have added Audrey Tang's video to the slides, which was only mentioned verbally during the live show.

  • [20240908_Technology for Democracy - Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g76UaPUQjb7ndkrNSGRcbXziUtFkvg1Wt2lk0ZzRDTo/edit#slide=id .g2fd5f588ddb_18_90]

• As for digital democracy and DAOs, Nikkei Business wrote an article about that, but Glen said he never said that.

  • [/plurality-japanese/Purality@Nikkei Business](https://scrapbox.io/plurality-japanese/Purality@Nikkei Business).

reserve

People interested in using TTTC People interested in broad listening

• It would be a waste to dissipate it by saying, "It's OSS, so look at the English repository."

• Japanese do not know each other and cannot communicate in Japanese.

• It would be nice to have some kind of place in Japan where people interested in broad listening can get together.

• It would be an online community, not a physical one.

• Nishio's idea of using the Plurality Japanese translation community -> I can secure my attention, but I feel that the project objectives are too blurred.

• Create a channel like proj-broadlistening on Code for Japan's Slack

• Create proj-broadlistening in Code for Japan Slack✅.

• Create a project page in Notion✅.

  • Public page Broad Listening
  • Page for editing Broad Listening

• Google Docs FAQ draft

  • Preparation ✅
  • I'm going to call on you to unearth and transcribe what I've answered so far ✅.

• Tweeted.

  • https://x.com/nishio/status/1828258473987158478

Broad Listening to "That Figure"

• Originally written to illustrate the story that LLM can change organizational structure. - Changes in organizational structure brought about by LLM
• Published in the special issue of 2023/8 of the Information Processing Society of Japan. - Not subjective or objective, but from the subjectivity of one to the subjectivity of many.
• He's more popular than he thought, so he made it CC-0 and free to use.

Talk to the city

• It's not a silver bullet.
• One of the many attempts by people around the world to improve society through software
  • AI Objectives Institute
• What kind of improvement is needed here?
  • It would be good to talk about something along the lines of, "We need a mechanism to encourage quality discussion."

Broad Listening in the Enterprise

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