$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Here we introduce StraightLines, a proof-of-concept tool developed by AOI’s Lucid Lens team, that automatically rewrites news headlines to reflect the content of articles in a more accurate, less sensational way.

• extensions

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

The [UK] Government is establishing an elite team of highly empowered technical experts at the heart of government. Their mission is to help departments harness the potential of AI to improve lives and the delivery of public services.

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

CiviClick is changing the way people interact with lawmakers through AI.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns

This list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.

• Artificial Intelligence

Системы распознавания лиц являются технологиями двойного назначения и могут использоваться для давления на общество. Массовое распознавание лиц должно быть запрещено до тех пор, пока не будет обеспечена полная прозрачность и безопасность его использования для граждан. Кампания мобилизует граждан для защиты своей частной жизни

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy

Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Reports

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

The First AI Legal Assistant, Made for Lawyers

• commercial

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech

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

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

"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."

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

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.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

An AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.

• US Election 2024

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Evaluate impact

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

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government AI strategies

Six AI tools under active development by professional newsrooms

• Media
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

One of multiple studies in the US using artificial intelligence to analyze the tone and word choice police officers use, to determine whether it leads to unnecessarily escalations with the public..

• police violence
• policing

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech

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

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

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

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation

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.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Dive is not just an AI assistant; it's your partner in optimizing meetings for maximum efficiency.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meeting tech
• Generative AI

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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

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

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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.

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

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.

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

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.

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

The HF Hub is the central place to explore, experiment, collaborate and build technology with Machine Learning.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Machine learning

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

• podcasts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Podcasts

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

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

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

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Online courses

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.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fellowships

The Largest AI Tools Directory

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

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

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

"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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Generative 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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Governance of AI

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.

• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Adobe's creative generative AI engine

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Summarize research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Text to video, Text to speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Code assistant

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI