The question we seek to address is: can we use AI itself to help us design and build better institutions, which enhance human capabilities for collaborating, governing, and living together?

• workshops

• Artificial Intelligence

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Sortition

CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

Search over 2000 reports of AI harms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame
• Consumer watchdogging

As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.

• supply chain

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

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
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Get funding

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

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

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
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

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
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• 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

• 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
• Open source
• Challenges

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

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

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

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

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

• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• 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
• Fundraising tools

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
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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
• labor

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech

Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

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

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps

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

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

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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• 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.

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• 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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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

• podcasts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Podcasts

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Machine learning

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

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

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

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

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

"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