Civic Tech Field Guide
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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? š
- 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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National AI Talent Surge
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe US federal government is rapidly hiring talent to build and govern AI to fulfill the priorities set forth by the Biden-Harris Administration.
In Spring 2024, NCSL surveyed eight legislative staffing groups about their use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools for legislative work.
AI.gov
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAUS federal website launched by the Biden Administration
Artificial Intelligence 2023 Legislation
Denver, COTracking AI legislation across all 50 US states as of January 2024
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Bots.law Chat Apps
Oakland, CaliforniaBots for Slack, Discord, Google Chat, and Microsoft Teams. You will tell these bots which cases to follow, and you'll get updates for those cases right in your chat app.
West Ham and Beckton GPT
LondonThe West Ham and Beckton ChatGPT is a modified version of the Chatbot from OpenAI and Microsoft. As well as the broad range of information that the regular AI uses, this modified version has been exposed to a specific set of policies and information to help unlock the power of AI for the new constituency of West Ham and Beckton.
We use satellites, other remote sensing techniques, and artificial intelligence to deliver a detailed look at global emissions that gets even better over time.
The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and aĀ year-long co-design processĀ led by theĀ Open Source InitiativeĀ (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.
An open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language models. Release repo for Vicuna and Chatbot Arena.
OpenLLaMA
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAOpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AIās LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset
Perplexity U.S. General Election portal
United States of America (the)AI-generated election information hub
Post outlining OpenAI's partnerships with DARPA, US AID, and US National Laboratories
SAGA Smart Machinaka Project
Saga, JapanThe SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a city that is easy to live in.
"BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model is a 176-billion-parameter transformer-based autoregressive large language model. The model, as well as the code base and the data used to train it, are distributed under free licences." - Wikipedia
Common Good AI
PO Box 880264, San Francisco, CA 94188-0264Common Good AI is a new non-profit organization that leverages human abilities to innovate and find solutions by integrating AI to empower groups of any size to collaboratively ideate, debate diverse ideas, identify shared goals, and find a path forward together.
The AI Governance Fellowship is a pioneering program dedicated to advancing the fairness and integrity of AI technologies in the Global South, with a focus on African nations.
A grassroots interdisciplinary responsible AI lab for Africa and the Global South. Researching technical alignment and governance of AI
This is a collective of dedicated individuals and organizations committed to fostering ethical AI practices, encouraging research, and addressing the societal implications of AI across Africa and largely the Global South.
ForHumanity
New York, USATo examine and analyze the downside risks associated with the ubiquitous advance of AI & Automation, to engage in risk mitigation and ensure the optimal outcomeā¦ ForHumanity.
Hand-written Petition Scanner
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKAn AI-powered tool designed to efficiently digitize handwritten petition sheets, transforming them into organized, upload-ready CSVs to streamline data management and optimize volunteer efforts.
2022 Inventory of Washington State Automated Decision-making Systems
Washington state, USA30 ADS govtech applications in Washington state
Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New Digital Playing Field
1025 F Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 200043 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI
Conservation X Labs (CXL)
Washington, DCUnlike traditional conservation efforts, Conservation X Labs focuses on leveraging the best technology, the newest innovation, interdisciplinary genius, and the power of the marketplace to boldly confront the biggest problems facing the planet.
Get energy data with a few lines of code
Cooperative AI Course
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.
AI for Changemakers
Poland (Polska)A global accelerator for AI innovators and nonprofits working to solve the worldās pressing challenges.
VoteSpeaker AI
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKDraft letters to sway voters and bolster support.
UK Electoral Commission Chatbot
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKFind information faster on the Electoral Commission website: Use our chatbot to do the searching for you
An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.
AI & Democracy Foundation
San FranciscoTo accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.
"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."
Automating (In)Justice: An Adversarial Audit of RisCanvi
Catalonia (Spain)Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."
Technology & Racial Justice Collaborative (TRJC)
New York CityLaw enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance tools, predictive technologies, and automated decision-making systems that impose a disproportionate burden on communities historically impacted by systemic bias.
Copbot Online
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)aims to help us understand how AI models and humans differ in their perception of risk
Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.
Includes both cloud APIs and special purpose tools to make your text articles more accessible
Code for All_
LisbonTech upskilling platform including MĆ”quina de IdentificaĆ§Ć£o de Talento (MIT), "para avaliar o potencial de requalificaĆ§Ć£o dos trabalhadores e, assim, agilizar a seleĆ§Ć£o de candidatos para formaĆ§Ć£o"
Democratizing artificial intelligence for improving permitting outcomes and efficiency
We estimate that UK central government conducts approximately one billion citizen-facing transactions per year in the provision of around 400 services, of which approximately 143 million are complex repetitive transactions. We estimate that 84% of these complex transactions are highly automatable.
Funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and implemented by UNESCO, this project supports the Flemish government in implementing reforms by contributing to the improved AI-readiness and increased adoption of AI across the Flemish public administrations in a safe and ethical manner.
In conjunction with OpenStreetMap, we are creating tools that we hope will enable the mapping community to enjoy a faster & more accurate mapping experience. To this end, we used artificial intelligence to predict features on high-resolution satellite imagery; these features are then populated in our RapiD map editing tool. When combined with global-scale humanitarian efforts, we hope RapiD can help realize our vision of a more connected world.
Synthetic Memories
Barcelona, Spainan initiative aimed at recovering lost or undocumented visual memories using AI image generation.
The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporationsā uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.
CitizenChat
UgandaCitizenChat is an AI-powered chatbot designed to empower citizens by providing access to key government information and facilitating interactive communication. The platform enables citizens to engage with government services, access valuable information, and report queries or concerns in real-time.
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