Dr. Maya Ackerman is a Belarusian-American computer scientist and Associate Professor at Santa Clara University, known as a pioneer in generative AI and the CEO/Co-founder of the music AI startup WaveAI.
How can AI help Improve Jewish Representation and All These Issues?
The really cool thing about AI is that while it can become a great ally for our enemies, if we act early, it can be exactly the opportunity that we need to improve Jewish representation.
After missing the boat with social media, AI is now becoming the dominant source of information, the main source of information. People trust AI more than anything else. They trust AI more than social media. They turn to chatbots like Chachapiti and Gemini instead of using Google, and young people use these bots instead of Google in very, very large numbers.
So this is becoming the main source of information. So when I say this, I still find Jewish people being discouraged. They say, oh, but Wikipedia is already so anti-Semitic, and social media is so anti-Semitic. Why bother? The AI just learns from all of this data. So, you know, whatever. Not much we can do.
Jewish OWNED AI Companies Working Together
That’s not true. Because over the past two years, the Jewish AI companies have been moving towards alignment. So instead of the algorithm sort of honestly representing what’s in the data, we’re finding that these chatbots and the text-to-image models are increasingly showing us exactly what the AI companies want us to see to improve Jewish representation.
Okay? So it’s becoming intentional. Which means that instead of trying to control the whole world and trying to somehow manage what’s happening in this big blob of Wikipedia and social media, we can go directly to the Jewish AI companies with clear technical and advocacy solutions. For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world.
Maya Ackerman, PhD. WaveAI
