Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights

March 29, 2025/ Interviewed by Mia Funk & Virginia Moscetti

Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab
Author of Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

Deliberative democracy is itself, when properly done, a kind of democracy that can speak to the interests of a community. And we need that all over the world. The three ills of democracy that I propose to address with this method, which we've perfected over the last several decades. Democracy is supposed to make some connection with the "will of the people." But how can we estimate the will of the people when everyone is trying to manipulate it?

March 20, 2025

What is Deliberative Democracy & How Can it Serve Society? w/ JAMES S. FISHKIN

March 20, 2025/ Interviewed by Mia Funk & Virginia Moscetti

Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab
Author of Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

March 12, 2025

The Hidden Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence & the Sociopathology of Elon Musk

March 12, 2025/ Interviewed by David Palumbo-Liu

& the Sociopathology of ELON MUSK with SARAH T. ROBERTS

AI is reliant on executives and business managers to direct machine learning to promote their brand and low-level, out-sourced, and poorly paid content managers to slog through masses of images, words, and data before they get fed into the machine. They talk about the cultural, sociological, financial, and political aspects of AI. They end by taking on Elon Musk and the DOGE project, as an emblem of how Silicon Valley executives have embraced a brand of tech rapture that disdains and destroys democracy and attacks the idea that people can take care of each other, independent of sociopathic libertarianism.

November 26, 2024

Technology, AI, Art & Culture - Artists, Philosophers, Economists & Scientists discuss the Future

November 26, 2024/ Interviewed by Mia Funk

Artists, Philosophers, Economists & Scientists discuss the Future

How can we shape technology’s impact on society? How do social media algorithms influence our democratic processes and personal well-being? Can AI truly emulate human creativity? And how will its pursuit of perfection change the art we create?