Projects - Artificial Intelligence

Polimorphic

San Francisco

Polimorphic is the first Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software specifically built for local governments.

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

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Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)

Washington, DC

"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law."

Cheeri IMM

Hong Kong

By making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.

Building Trust in AI: A Landscape Analysis of Government AI Programs

A critical review of the accuracy of countries' submissions to the OECD's AI Policy Observatory site, tracking national government AI programs

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JournalismAI's project gallery

Six AI tools under active development by professional newsrooms

AORAI Policy Map

Africa

A continent-wide map of AI policy, laws, and tools in Africa

JUST AI

London, UK

JUST AI is an independent network of researchers and practitioners committed to understanding the social and ethical value of data and AI

CDIAL

Lagos

Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans

African AI Observatory

Cape Town, South Africa

Bringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.

Civic AI Handbook

London, UK

The Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.

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Artificial Intelligence for the Legislative Branch

Washington, DC

POPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.

reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good

Germany

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

Australia

Creating knowledge and strategies for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.

The Civic AI Observatory

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Nesta and Newspeak House announce the Civic AI Observatory (civicai.uk), an initiative to support civic organisations plan and adapt to the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI.

AI4D-Lab

Dodoma

The AI4D multidisciplinary research lab run by two public academic institutions in Tanzania, UDOM & NM-AIST. We set forth an objective to establish a multidisciplinary AI4D lab that fosters capacity development, research and innovation in responsible AI and its application in addressing societal and developmental problems in Africa.

AI Impact Lab

United States of America (the)

At AI Impact Labs, we are dedicated to helping nonprofits and mission-driven companies stay ahead of the curve by providing comprehensive support and training on using generative AI in their workflows.

Humanitarian AI Today

Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.

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Hugging Face

The HF Hub is the central place to explore, experiment, collaborate and build technology with Machine Learning. Join the open source Machine Learning movement!

Chatbot Clara

Clara es la Asistencia Virtual del portal Decide Madrid. Utiliza tecnologías como la inteligencia artificial y el procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

AI for Good Coursera course

Learn AI's role in addressing big challenges. Build skills combining human and machine intelligence for positive real-world impact using AI

Climate action

AI Accountability Fellowships

Washington, DC

The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

AI for Sustainable Development Goals (AI4SDGs) Think Tank

A global collection of AI projects and proposals that impacts UN Sustainable Development Goals, both positively and negatively.

Sustainable Development Goals

A Snapshot Of Artificial Intelligence Procurement Challenges

GovLab New York University

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

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Albus

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

Democratic Inputs to AI

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

AI Forensics

Italy

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's creative generative AI engine

Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

Facebook

Clipbook

Media monitoring

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and Government report

Toronto

This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.

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WinWith.Me

WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.

JournalismAI Discovery

JournalismAI Discovery is an interactive self-guided course that will help you understand what AI technologies can do to improve your journalism.

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UnmappedSmallTownUSA Mapstodon bot

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

OpenStreetMap

Executive Order on Modernizing Regulatory Review

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

US White House order including addressing AI generated public comments

Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

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Common Voice

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

2023 Webby Awards

Fingerspelling

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

2023 Webby Awards

JournalismAI

Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE

JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.

JournalismAI Fellowship Programme

Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE

The JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journalism via the use of AI technologies.

Machine Learning Trainings for Journalists

Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE

Free online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.

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Airtable of JournalismAI Case Studies

Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism