Making Your Voice Heard w/ Tristan & Felix de Simone

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of constituent communication in AI legislation with guests Tristan Williams and Felix de Simone.

I am joined by Tristan Williams and Felix de Simone to discuss their work on the potential of constituent communication, specifically in the context of AI legislation. These two worked as part of an AI Safety Camp team to understand whether or not it would be useful for more people to be sharing their experiences, concerns, and opinions with their government representative (hint, it is). Check out the blogpost on their findings, "Talking to Congress: Can constituents contacting their legislator influence policy?" and the tool they created! (01:53) - Introductions (04:04) - Starting the project (13:30) - Project overview (16:36) - Understanding constituent communication (28:50) - Literature review (35:52) - Phase 2 (43:26) - Creating a tool for citizen engagement (50:16) - Crafting your message (59:40) - The game of advocacy (01:15:19) - Difficulties on the project (01:22:33) - Call to action (01:32:30) - Outro Links Links to all articles/papers which are mentioned throughout the episode can be found below, in order of their appearance. AI Safety Camp Pause AI BlueDot Impact TIME article - There’s an AI Lobbying Frenzy in Washington. Big Tech Is Dominating Congressional Management…

People in this episode

Host: Jacob Haimes

Guests: Tristan Williams, Felix de Simone

Topics covered

• AI legislation
• constituent communication
• citizen engagement
• advocacy
• policy influence

Keywords

• AI legislation
• constituent communication
• citizen engagement
• advocacy
• policy influence
• AI Safety Camp
• Congress

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI Safety Camp, Congress, Congressional Management Foundation, BlueDot Impact, TIME

Books & works: Talking to Congress: Can constituents contacting their legislator influence policy?

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