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Divya Siddarth
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Collective Intelligence Project | AI Governance & Democracy Expert | Former Microsoft CTO Office & UK AI Safety Institute
Divya Siddarth is among the most important voices on governing artificial intelligence. As founder of the Collective Intelligence Project, she has run pioneering experiments with OpenAI, Anthropic, and national governments to put democratic input at the heart of AI development. For senior audiences weighing AI governance and public trust, she offers a rare blend of technical depth and practical optimism that leaves rooms better equipped to act.
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Divya Siddarth biography
Speaker Divya Siddarth is a political economist and social technologist redefining how humanity governs artificial intelligence. As co-founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project, she builds governance models that channel collective human wisdom into the design and oversight of transformative technologies. Her work sits at the meeting point of democracy and frontier AI, asking a deceptively simple question: who decides how these systems shape our lives, and how can far more people have a voice in that decision?
Before founding CIP, Divya worked as a political economist in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO and led AI and democracy initiatives at the United Kingdom’s AI Safety Institute. She holds a B.S. in Computational Decision Analysis from Stanford University and pursues doctoral research at the Oxford Internet Institute, where she studies governance, collective intelligence, and the design of public goods. She has been affiliated with Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, the Ostrom Workshop, and Harvard’s Plurality Lab.
Bridging Frontier AI and Democratic Participation
Divya’s ideas move from theory into practice through collaborations with leading AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, and with governments such as the UK Frontier AI Task Force and Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs. These projects test how public participation can steer the direction of advanced AI rather than leaving it to a handful of engineers and executives. Her TED talk and widely cited writing have helped popularize the idea that democratic input is not a constraint on innovation but a source of legitimacy and resilience.
As a speaker, Divya Siddarth combines technical rigor with genuine optimism. She reframes AI not as a force beyond human control but as a space for collective design and shared values, challenging audiences of executives, policymakers, and technologists to help build systems that strengthen democracy rather than erode it. Explore more AI speakers through Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Divya Siddarth Speaking Videos
Divya Siddarth - How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other
Divya Siddarth - Collective Intelligence
Divya Siddarth Keynote Topics
Artificial intelligence and democracy are often framed as opposites, with one moving faster than any institution can keep up. Divya Siddarth argues the reverse: democratic principles such as participation, transparency, and collective oversight are exactly what powerful AI systems need to earn public trust. Drawing on real experiments she has run with leading labs and governments, she shows how AI can also expand civic engagement and widen access to decision-making. Audiences leave with a hopeful, concrete framework for building technology that serves the many rather than the few.
Some of the most valuable things a society can build, from open research to shared digital infrastructure, are chronically underfunded because markets struggle to capture their returns. Divya Siddarth draws on her work in collective intelligence and economic design to lay out new funding models that reward collaboration and long-term value instead of zero-sum competition. This talk challenges leaders, investors, and policymakers to imagine economies organized around shared prosperity, where progress and inclusion reinforce one another.
The hardest challenges facing organizations and societies rarely yield to a single expert or a single algorithm. In this keynote, Divya Siddarth explains how collective intelligence, the structured combination of human insight, institutional knowledge, and machine learning, can produce better decisions at scale. Through examples from governance, science, and frontier technology, she shows how groups can think more clearly together and how leaders can design systems that make collaboration as powerful as computation.
FAQs on Booking Divya Siddarth
Why Divya Siddarth?
Divya Siddarth is among a small handful of people who genuinely shape how artificial intelligence is governed, not just comment on it. As founder of the Collective Intelligence Project, she has designed and run real experiments with OpenAI, Anthropic, and national governments, giving her insights no commentator can match. On stage she pairs technical depth with clarity and optimism, leaving senior audiences with practical ways to think about AI, trust, and the future of decision-making. Book Divya Siddarth through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring that perspective to your next event.
What is the Collective Intelligence Project?
The Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) is a research and development organization co-founded by Divya Siddarth that designs new governance models for transformative technologies. Its goal is to channel collective human input into decisions about how powerful systems like advanced AI are built and deployed. CIP has partnered with leading AI labs and governments to pilot practical ways for the public to help steer technology rather than simply react to it.
What does Divya Siddarth speak about?
Divya Siddarth speaks about AI governance, democracy, collective intelligence, and the economics of public goods. Her keynotes help audiences understand how participation and oversight can make AI more trustworthy, and how organizations can make better decisions by combining human and machine intelligence. To check her availability for a conference or leadership event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Why does AI governance matter for businesses?
As AI systems take on higher-stakes decisions, the question of who governs them, and how, becomes a direct business concern affecting trust, regulation, and risk. Divya Siddarth helps leaders see governance not as red tape but as a source of legitimacy and resilience, with frameworks they can apply to their own deployment of AI.
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