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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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Federal AI Hackathon
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAHelp us optimize federal websites and data for AI while enhancing human usability
Blocks lots of AI scrapers at once
Google.org AI Opportunity Fund: Europe
United States of America (the)Helping European workers benefit from AI’s potential
A definition and license for open source compatible licensing of neural network weights
The MLCommons AI Safety working group is composed of a global consortium of industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civil society experts committed to building a harmonized approach to AI safety.
The Project AISLE
Batticaloa, Sri LankaProject AISLE is a hate speech monitoring tool in Tamil and Sinhala developed using Artificial Intelligence.
AI Policy Hub
Berkeley, CA, USAThe AI Policy Hub is an interdisciplinary initiative that trains researchers to develop effective governance and policy frameworks to guide artificial intelligence, with a goal to help policymakers and other AI decision-makers act with foresight.
Fairness Without Categories: Enabling Collective Action for Algorithmic Accountability
Berkeley, CA, USAThis project [by Jessica Dai], in collaboration with Deb Raji, explores designing a framework for the general public to report and contest large-scale harms from algorithmic decision making systems (ADS).
AI in grantmaking peer group meeting
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)An open invitation for funders of all sizes to come together as peers, exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI.
Karachi Chal
KarachiYour AI based Itinerary planner for the City of lights.
form-extractor-prototype
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)A prototype tool that extracts the structure of a form from an image or PDF and generates a multi-page web form in the GOV.UK schema. by @timpaul
The Impact and Opportunities of Generative AI in Fact-Checking
Washington state, USAPaper by ROBERT WOLFE and TANUSHREE MITRA, University of Washington, United States
To help build a better future for refugees, UNHCR’s chat services suit their preferences, meet their needs, and safeguard their data
Learn AI skills in 100 days with daily bitesized lessons.
Querido Diário
Brazil (Brasil)Diários oficiais dos municípios brasileiros em formato aberto para a livre consulta da sociedade civil.
Enrolling Citizens: a primer on archetypes of democratic engagement with AI
Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USAPrimer by Wanheng Hu and Ranjit Singh
Former president Bolsonaro claimed 600,000 attended a rally for him, but researchers used the tool to prove it was less than a third of that.
The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organise the algorithmic auditing profession, promote AI auditing standards, certify best practices and contribute to the emergence of Responsible AI.
Communiti Labs
Melbourne VIC, AustraliaCommuniti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.
This research brief explores how public participation practitioners might encounter AI tools; examines the risks, opportunities and uncertainties these tools present; and offers ethical considerations to guide their use.
Code for America AI Studio
United States of America (the)Workshop series to provide "a hands-on way for government to learn about the opportunities and considerations of leveraging AI and implementing these systems responsibly."
Orbis Project
MilanAugmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales
[A] "team consisting of researchers and engineers that will...Implement a system for collecting and encoding public input on model behavior into our systems"
Meta's Community Forum on Generative AI
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAMeta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method
Panoramic
FranceOur platform, fueled solely by public and certified documents, simplifies complex subjects with different levels of answers tailored to everyone.
Sidekick
Kansas City, MOIn plain language, tell Sidekick what you want to know and get answers straight from the mySidewalk data library.
The WWF Climate Realism Exhibition combines latest local data from climate research with custom-built AI pipelines to send famous landscape paintings from art history into their possible climate futures.
Lookout - Assisted vision
Mountain View, CA, USALookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily.
Scale Data Engine leverages your enterprise data, and with Scale GenAI Platform, safely unlocks the value of AI.
A fun illustrated map charting AI Safety efforts across blogs, podcasts, training, support, governance, research, and so on.
Sourcebase Inquiry
United States of America (the)sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.
Our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI,” (May 2024) provides a new framework and recommendations to support open data providers and other interested parties in making open data “ready” for generative AI.
The only solution that combines an AI grant-writer, a case management system, a CRM, a booking platform and impact reporting — so you can get more funding, keep costs low, and keep all your information in one place.
Public AI Google Group
United States of America (the)People and organizations working on, contributing to, and advocating for public AI
AI Palace
Germany (Deutschland)Join a small, curated group of researchers, builders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists for a 7-day unconference focused on the political economy of AI. We will build new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for AI.
The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.
[W]e explore c.125 companies operating in the Responsible AI space
By Code Hope Labs. The policy is intended to be used within cause-based organizations which wish to encourage the experimental use of ChatGPT or other LLMs within their organizations.
Use of AI tools in funding applications
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The Research Funders Policy Group, of which Wellcome is a member, sets out expectations around the use of generative AI tools in funding applications.
One-Pager for Staff from London’s Office of Technology
Zencity Press Release Generator
Tel Aviv, IsraelThis update allows you to create professional-grade press releases in a matter of minutes with minimal effort and editing.
Adopting AI Responsibly: Guidelines for Procurement of AI Solutions by the Private Sector
Gov.uk Guidance to civil servants on use of generative AI
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)This guidance outlines the expectation for how civil servants should approach the use of Large Language Models.
Gen-AI for Local Governments
444 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USAMetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force
AI Intersections Database
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USAThis database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.
Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.
AI4Democracy
Madrid (Spain)The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.
Rentervention
Chicago, ILA service of the Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), here to help Illinois tenants facing housing issues
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