Madeleine Daepp

@mdaepp.bsky.social

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Civic technologist studying AI + democracy. Research Director @cdt.org, currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research. PhD MIT. Concerned about generative propaganda but have handed my entire life over to Claude. Views my own. madeleinedaepp.com

scattered red dots in a youtube-like video with title "dirty data pipeline"

Ethnographer bot reports no engagement. Perhaps because its style is too academic, lol

discord conversation with ethnographer bot listing specific accounts that look like inauthentic coordination

helpful and harmless can be manipulated (discord conversation with ethnographer bot)

conversation with bot on discord looks at jordan peterson angle behind "dominant" accounts and lobster emoji

Discord conversation with ethnographer bot. says there are no art/creativity communities in the submolts, no model-specific identities, no geographies, and no dating

What is missing in the AI ecosystem is not analysis, white papers, or technical benchmarks, nor efforts focused on existential risk to humanity (though those are important too). What’s missing are institutions explicitly dedicated to defending democratic reversibility — the capacity of societies to correct course when power is abused. And getting there means building AI in a way that both anticipates and wards off the risks of authoritarian lock-in while advancing and improving democracy and democratic commitments.