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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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Algorithmic Impact Assessments: A Practical Framework For Public Agency Accountability
New York City, NY, USAA framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability
Public Interest AI at HIIG
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyAlexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft
AI Resources
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FranceAn evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.
A+ Alliance
Geneva, SwitzerlandA Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.
A People’s Guide to AI
4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.
Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes
AI Now Institute
New York City, NY, USAThe AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically
An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.
Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.
Report: AI Governance in Southeast Asia
Thailand (Prathet Thai)In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia.
Doublethink Labs
Taipei City, TaiwanDoublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.
Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue
Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia
BEL'S AI Initiative
Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)AI literacy effort for government and other sectors in Cameroon
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.
The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.
All Our Ideas
Vegmúli 2, 108 Reykjavik, IcelandAll Our Ideas is an innovative tool that you can use for large-scale online engagements to produce a rank-ordered list of public input.
AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!
Call Time
Los Angeles, CAOnline political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.
A speculative story sprint collection
Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community
Copy, Paste, Legislate
Phoenix, AZ, USAAn investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation
Pondera
80 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom, CA 95630, USAPondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.
Polco
Middleton, WIPolco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.
A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management
Bail-setting algorithms in Philadelphia
PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia should think twice about its risk-assessment algorithm.
Seeing AI
Redmond, WAA free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects
To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness
PredPol
Santa Cruz, CA 95063, USAPredPol’s software technology enables law enforcement agencies to better prevent crime in their communities by generating daily predictions on the places and times that crimes are most likely to occur during any patrol shift.
ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.
Atlas AI
Palo AltoOur software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.
Block Party
New York CityWe make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.
Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.
ClearGov Transparency
Maynard, MACloud-based budget and performance management software built for local governments.
to enable data-driven farming
Hiring people from the bottom of the pyramid to complete digital work - SamaHub is Samasource’s training data annotation platform used to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. The platform ensures high-quality, human-powered training data and validation for world leading AI teams.
Principled Artificial Intelligence
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USAA map of ethical and rights-based approaches
Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption
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Your Priorities
Vegmúli 2, 108 Reykjavik, IcelandYour Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.
Bots for Charity
Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USADirect Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Law Padi
NigeriaLawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.
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