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Technologies that train models to autonomously support or function independently of direct human effort.
Suggested resources:
- Civic AI Prompt Library
- AI features in digital participation platforms, by Matt Stempeck
- The threat and promise of generative AI in the regulatory process.
- AI and the humanitarian sector: hype or hope? 🔊
- A round-up of internal AI policies
- CivicSpace.tech guide to Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, including its relevance to civic space, opportunities, risks, and case studies
- Handshake's Generative AI Resource Hub, a curated list of research, instructions, and projects from Handshake on generative AI.
- Watch: Assessing Responsible AI Use Cases in Local Government, by Open North
- Foundation models in the public sector, by the Ada Lovelace Institute
- Artificial Intelligence: Its potential and ethics in the practice of public participation. A Research Paper by the International Association for Public Participation Canada.
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Generative AI Accountability Indicators (GAIA)
740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.
Indigenous AI
GlobalThe Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems.
CEE. AI Lab
Central and Eastern EuropeGame-changing program for newsrooms with the tools and knowledge to harness AI for smarter, more efficient journalism.
Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases
How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThis report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.
Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAFreddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies
AI Vulnerability Database (AVID)
United States of America (the)An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures
The Data Labelers Association
NairobiEmpowering the Human Workforce Behind AI
AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance (AVAR)
United States of America (the)As ARVA, our mission is to empower communities to recognize, diagnose, and manage vulnerabilities in AI that affects them.
Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic well-being in Africa
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAArticle in Nature by Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon & Marshall Burke
Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders
United States of America (the)Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker
Article in Human Service Organizations by Lauri Goldkind, Joy Ming, and Alex Fink
The Situate AI Guidebook: Co-Designing a Toolkit to Support Multi-Stakeholder Early-stage Deliberations Around Public Sector AI Proposals
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBy Anna Kawakami, Amanda Coston, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Kenneth Holstein
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS)
Paris, FranceThe first edition of PAIRS took place as an independent side-event of the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) providing a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art in participatory development and governance of AI, and to build stronger connections across the field.
Justicia Lab AI
New York, NYThe World's First Non-Profit AI Lab for Immigrant Justice
Pathfinder
Berkeley, CA, USABuilt with precision and purpose by Mobile Pathways, Pathfinder is a secure analytics and insights platform uniquely designed for and tested with immigration attorneys, paralegals, and accredited representatives.
AI and Democracy Movements Project
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAThe AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.
Nonviolent Action Lab
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests, demonstrations, and other actions.
The Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard Law School Library
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAStrengthening society’s connection to knowledge by advancing our access to and understanding of the data that shapes AI.
Make It Fair campaign
LondonThe UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.
Bridging Dictionary
MIT Media Lab[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide
La Infrastructura Pública de IA Abierta y Multilingüe (ALIA)
Barcelona, SpainEurope's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure
AI Collaborative
1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063Advancing AI in the public interest.
Red teaming large language models (LLMs) for resilience to scientific disinformation
United States of America (the)The red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).
Current AI
Stanford, CA, USAThrough global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.
Humane Intelligence
United States of America (the)Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.
Career Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.
Emerging Tech Primers
AspenOur team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.
The Dialogue on Technology Project (DoT)
Burnaby, CanadaDoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.
Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people
In this paper, building on insights from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, we provide a "Democracy Levels" framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically.
Clever Together
LondonWe help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.
How can we ensure more inclusive and responsible AI so that diverse harms can be foreseen and mitigated, and its benefits equitably enjoyed around the world?
Connected by Data
Epsom, UKWe campaign for communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data and AI
A key question is: who gets a say in the direction AI and other frontier technologies go?
Cet appel à projet vise à créer et à rendre accessible les communs numériques sur l’ensemble de la chaine de l’intelligence artificielle générative afin d’assurer le développement de produits ou services innovants.
Facebook Community Forums on AI
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAWe partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.
Better Images of AI
LondonHave you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?
How can we ensure that democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances? What are achievable positive visions for a world being transformed by technology? By Aviv Ovadya
Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
Demosquare
Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.
AI and Campaigning: The Future of Influence
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKReport by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab
TrollWall.ai
Prešov, SlovakiaAI-powered community management solution with human-level accuracy
AI & Campaigning Handbook
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKCampaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.
AI goes to school
PortugalArtificial Intelligence: support teachers and schools in using AI effectively
An In-Depth Audit of Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Impacting Individuals with Disabilities
Deep learning for social services for the Barcelona City Council
Barcelona, SpainWith the collaboration of Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Eticas carried out an audit of the natural language processing (NLP) system from the Social Services area from the Barcelona City Council.
The report explores Uber, Cabify and Bolt’s compliance with competition, labor and consumer protection laws in Spain.
What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?
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