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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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The Dialogue on Technology Project (DoT)
Burnaby, CanadaDoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.
Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people
Clever Together
LondonWe help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.
How can we ensure that democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances? What are achievable positive visions for a world being transformed by technology? By Aviv Ovadya
How can we ensure more inclusive and responsible AI so that diverse harms can be foreseen and mitigated, and its benefits equitably enjoyed around the world?
In this paper, building on insights from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, we provide a "Democracy Levels" framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically.
Cet appel à projet vise à créer et à rendre accessible les communs numériques sur l’ensemble de la chaine de l’intelligence artificielle générative afin d’assurer le développement de produits ou services innovants.
A key question is: who gets a say in the direction AI and other frontier technologies go?
Connected by Data
Epsom, UKWe campaign for communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data and AI
Better Images of AI
LondonHave you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?
Facebook Community Forums on AI
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAWe partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.
Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
AI & Campaigning Handbook
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKCampaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.
Demosquare
Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.
AI and Campaigning: The Future of Influence
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKReport by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab
TrollWall.ai
Prešov, SlovakiaAI-powered community management solution with human-level accuracy
AI goes to school
PortugalArtificial Intelligence: support teachers and schools in using AI effectively
The success of Koa Health and Eticas serves as a beacon for the broader industry, emphasizing the importance of ethical considerations when developing mental health solutions.
Eticas audited the algorithmic system that predicts homelessness risk in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Deep learning for social services for the Barcelona City Council
Barcelona, SpainWith the collaboration of Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Eticas carried out an audit of the natural language processing (NLP) system from the Social Services area from the Barcelona City Council.
An In-Depth Audit of Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Impacting Individuals with Disabilities
Since 2016, the Laura Robot has analyzed more than 8.6 million visits in 40 clinical and hospital centers in several Brazilian states.
In Spain, the level of risk to which a victim of gender violence is subjected is determined by an algorithm. The system to which it belongs is VioGén which, with more than 3 million risk evaluations, is the risk assessment system with the most registered cases in the world.
What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?
The report explores Uber, Cabify and Bolt’s compliance with competition, labor and consumer protection laws in Spain.
What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?
ChatGPT Gov is designed to streamline government agencies’ access to OpenAI’s frontier models.
The Spinoza project initially aims to create a tool for journalists based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance media coverage of climate change and ecological transition, all while relying on reliable sources.
Pluralisme
France“Pluralisme.fr is a revolutionary solution in the sense that it will help strengthen Democracy and monitor alternative facts
Factstream AI
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)FactStream AI utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to simplify access to essential legal information for newcomers and new community members across Europe.
Phoenix
CaliforniaPhoenix, is a tool designed to support the work of peacebuilders and mediators working to reduce conflict in communities experiencing division or violence.
Dalil is a web platform enabling faster access to accurate information through AI-powered media monitoring and analysis tools.
Tracking Local Law 144 bias audits
New York CityACLU's crowd-sourced public tracker of bias audits of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) released by employers related to NYC's Local Law 144.
AIForensics
Italy (Italia)AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms.
Inescapable AI
Los Angeles, CAEmploying a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States.
L’observatoire des algorithmes publics (ODAP) crée et rassemble des informations sur les algorithmes utilisés par les administrations françaises, pour les rendre plus transparents.
Consult (Gov.UK)
10 Downing StreetConsult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.
Redbox
10 Downing StreetBringing Generative AI to the way the Civil Service works
Connect (GOV.UK)
10 Downing Streeti.AI are using AI to match capacity to demand in the Grid connections queue
i.AI and NHS England Collaboration Charter
10 Downing StreetThe Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), an innovative team of technical experts at the heart of government, and NHS England (NHSE) have signed a first-of-a-kind Collaboration Charter to support the use of AI in the NHS.
Scout (GOV.UK)
10 Downing StreetAn AI-powered tool that improves government major project delivery by automatically analysing thousands of documents to help detect problems earlier, enabling timely interventions that keep critical projects on track.
Parlex and Lex
10 Downing StreetEquipping policy makers and researchers with AI-driven tools to explore legislation, analyse parliamentary developments, and empowering them in the policy making process.
Humphrey
10 Downing StreetA package of tools to speed up the work of civil servants and make them deliver ministerial plans more quickly.
Minute (GOV.UK)
10 Downing StreetMinute is a secure AI transcription service that produces customisable summaries in the formats that public servants need.
Building AI for Good
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKWe're building a community of technologists committed to leveraging AI to create real good. We run a series of events around London, and maintain an exciting online community.
Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI)
10 Downing StreetThe Incubator for Artificial Intelligence in UK government
ThemeFinder
10 Downing StreetThemeFinder is a topic modelling Python package designed for analysing one-to-many question-answer data (i.e. survey responses, public consultations, etc.).
AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAGoogle DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-written summaries, while still representing minority views in the final version.
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