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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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Copy, Paste, Legislate
Phoenix, AZ, USAAn investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Atlas AI
Palo AltoOur software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.
Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.
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
ClearGov Transparency
Maynard, MACloud-based budget and performance management software built for local governments.
to enable data-driven farming
Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption
Wish you had a better way to make sense of Twitter during disasters than this? Type in a keyword like #ChileEarthquake in Twitter's search box above and you'll see more tweets than you can possibly read in a day let alone keep up with for more than a few minutes
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Brandwatch Consumer Research
48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USAGet consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.
VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers
A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.
Reveal hidden gender bias
Chalmers
TorontoChalmers can help you find things like: free meals, overnight shelter, clothing banks, emergency contacts and can point you to offline and online mental health services.
Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.
DoNotPay bot
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAThe World's First Robot Lawyer
Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.
ZenCity
Tel Aviv, IsraelHear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level
Fluicity (Efalia Engage)
4 Rue du Caire, 75002 Paris, FranceFluicity is a community engagement software for public and private entities
Rosie
Brazil (Brasil)An artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.
WorkIt Walmart employee app
New York CityAI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UKMeasuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods
Automating NYC
New York CityWe want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?
One Concern
Menlo Park, California, United StatesOur platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.
US Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAContinued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
The Partnership on AI was established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society.
DATAJUSTICE project
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UKThis project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication
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