Projects - Artificial Intelligence

Softening Online Extremes Using Network Engineering

Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Stanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview

Google

Google Daily Listen

"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge

Google

Democratic AI Series

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

In the Democratic AI series, Simon and Yung-Hsuan guide the audience to explore how various AI tools can foster healthy democratic deliberation and collective decision-making.

Newspeak

What the Fed?

United States of America (the)

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

Dembrane

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

Naskvoz

Russian Federation (the)

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

Telegram

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

Telegram

TechTonic Justice

Los Angeles, CA

A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.

Reduced inequalities

UrbanistAI

Europe

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

KI-Kompass Kartenspiel

Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, Germany

Findet es im Kartenspiel KI-Kompass heraus! Hier schlüpft ihr in die Rolle von ultimativen KI-Expert*innen und helft Bürger*innen bei ihren Anfragen.

Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG)

Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, Germany

Impulsgeber für die digitale Gesellschaft

IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding

IBM Watsonx

Tainan City Council Watchbot

Tainan City

Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.

Artificial Intelligence in Legislative Services: Principles for Effective Implementation

This book, developed by Bússola Tech in partnership with the Organization of American States (OAS), the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), and the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil),...guide[s] an exploration of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can significantly enhance parliamentary services.

Eticas Foundation

New York, NY

Community-led AI Audits: Making AI Systems Fair & Accountable

CTFG partners

Digital Infrastructure for Governance and Inclusive Transformation (DIGIT)

Bengaluru

Digital Infrastructure for Governance and Inclusive Transformation (DIGIT) is an open-source, scalable, interoperable platform for responsive public service delivery and good governance.

OpenNyAI

India (Bhārat)

AI Digital Public Goods for Justice in India

Harmonica

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

Your virtual facilitator.

Newspeak

AI for Collective Intelligence Rapid Response Fund

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The AI4CI Hub’s Rapid Response Fund offers an exciting opportunity for small-scale, high-impact projects that unite academic and non-academic partners from across the UK. This fund is designed to support collaboration on AI for Collective Intelligence research, with the potential to achieve concrete outcomes that pave the way for more significant research activities.

San José AI Reviews & Inventory

San Jose, California, USA

An AI Inventory is an important transparency mechanism that enables the City of San José to meaningfully communicate the AI systems that it uses to its residents. In January 2023, the DPO began maintaining an AI Inventory in an effort to increase transparency of the technological tools used by the City.

Government AI Coalition

San Jose, California, USA

The GovAI Coalition went public...publishing a set of deliverables any organization could use to help jumpstart their agency with responsible AI practices.

AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The AI4CI Hub is a UKRI National AI Research Hub involving universities from each of the UK’s four constituent nations and over forty initial stakeholder partners from across academia, government, charities and industry.

AI tools for Decidim

Barcelona, Spain

Work in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earliest possible step.

Decidim

The Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact (OASI)

The OASI Register compiles information about algorithms with the aim of increasing public awareness and providing the necessary knowledge for an informed public conversation, and of making possible for experts and the public to search and analyse the use and social impact of algorithmic systems across the world.

Unanimous AI

San Francisco

Unanimous AI develops Swarm® & Swarm AI® technology that amplifies human intelligence, empowering groups to optimize their collective knowledge, wisdom, and intuition by forming real-time AI systems [plus Thinkscape and Mindmix]

Screened Out of Housing

How AI-powered tenant screening hurts renters: Research paper by TechEquity Collaborative

Active Citizen

Reykjavík, Iceland

Active Citizen is an open source library, API and UI using various AI technologies aimed at empowering citizens democratically.

Your Priorities

Stanford Online Deliberation Platform

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

The Online Deliberation Platform is a video discussion platform for groups of 8-15 people.

SSARE

Berlin

SSARE serves as an efficient and scalable resource for semantic search and article recommendations, catering primarily to political news data.

SocietySpeaks.io

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Where Conversations Shape Our Future

Policy Synth

Iceland (Ísland)

Policy Synth is an open-source TypeScript library developed by the Citizens Foundation to facilitate the creation of multi-scale AI agent logic flows, APIs, and real-time web applications.

ChatGPT

Caddy (Gov.UK)

10 Downing Street

Caddy is an AI powered co-pilot for customer service functions everywhere.

United Kingdom (government)

Albert

France

Starting in 2024, Albert will be tested at local public service counters — Maisons France services — to help users with their paperwork.

Legislative Use of Artificial Intelligence 2024 Survey

In Spring 2024, NCSL surveyed eight legislative staffing groups about their use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools for legislative work.

state

AI.gov

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

US federal website launched by the Biden Administration

United States (federal government)

Zapier for Non-profits

Apply for a 15% discount for non-profits.

commercial

National AI Talent Surge

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The US federal government is rapidly hiring talent to build and govern AI to fulfill the priorities set forth by the Biden-Harris Administration.

United States (federal government)

Artificial Intelligence 2023 Legislation

Denver, CO

Tracking AI legislation across all 50 US states as of January 2024

state

Bots.law Chat Apps

Oakland, California

Bots 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

London

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.

Climate TRACE

We use satellites, other remote sensing techniques, and artificial intelligence to deliver a detailed look at global emissions that gets even better over time.

Climate action

Holly

New York City

Faster, market-informed hiring for govs

Newspeak Safe Bets on AI

133 Bethnal Green Road London

A newsletter issue with a great summary of back-office efficiencies for social good organisations using AI

FastChat-T5

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, USA

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset

Register rabe UI

Slovenia (Slovenija)

Comprehensive database tracking the use of AI systems in the Slovenian public sector.

The Open Source AI Definition

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 a year-long co-design process led by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.