We help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Civil society research outfits

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

We campaign for communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data and AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Data governance

We 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.

• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• User research

Have you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?

• Artificial Intelligence
• Narrative tech
• Artistic interventions

By Aviv Ovadya

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Democratic Innovations

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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Building inside government

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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Evaluate impact

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?

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

A key question is:  who gets a say in the direction AI and other frontier technologies go?

• framework

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• User research

Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

Campaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Report by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

AI-powered community management solution with human-level accuracy

• hate speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Community-building resources

Artificial Intelligence: support teachers and schools in using AI effectively

• teachers & educators

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

Eticas audited the algorithmic system that predicts homelessness risk in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• homelessness

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

With 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.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Natural Language Processing

Since 2016, the Laura Robot has analyzed more than 8.6 million visits in 40 clinical and hospital centers in several Brazilian states.

• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

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?

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• AI Auditing

An In-Depth Audit of Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Impacting Individuals with Disabilities

• Gender Equality

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• AI Auditing

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?

• TikTok

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• AI Auditing

The report explores Uber, Cabify and Bolt’s compliance with competition, labor and consumer protection laws in Spain.

• mobility
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

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.

• mental health

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

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.

• Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

“Pluralisme.fr is a revolutionary solution in the sense that it will help strengthen Democracy and monitor alternative facts

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Factchecking

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.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• resources

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Legal tech

FactStream AI utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to simplify access to essential legal information for newcomers and new community members across Europe.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Data science for social good

Dalil is a web platform enabling faster access to accurate information through AI-powered media monitoring and analysis tools.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Phoenix, is a tool designed to support the work of peacebuilders and mediators working to reduce conflict in communities experiencing division or violence.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

ACLU's crowd-sourced public tracker of bias audits of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) released by employers related to NYC's Local Law 144.

• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

Employing 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.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities
• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Access social benefits

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• AI Auditing

L’observatoire des algorithmes publics (ODAP) crée et rassemble des informations sur les algorithmes utilisés par les administrations françaises, pour les rendre plus transparents.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Registers of government AI

Equipping policy makers and researchers with AI-driven tools to explore legislation, analyse parliamentary developments, and empowering them in the policy making process.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

We'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.

• Newspeak

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

ThemeFinder is a topic modelling Python package designed for analysing one-to-many question-answer data (i.e. survey responses, public consultations, etc.).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence in UK government

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Innovation teams and labs

Minute is a secure AI transcription service that produces customisable summaries in the formats that public servants need.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Meeting tech

i.AI are using AI to match capacity to demand in the Grid connections queue

• Affordable and clean energy

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine learning

A package of tools to speed up the work of civil servants and make them deliver ministerial plans more quickly.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

An 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.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

The 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.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

Consult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Bringing Generative AI to the way the Civil Service works

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

Google 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.

• Google

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

This article proposes, and presents results from, an online technology platform and a methodology, which can help depolarize sectors of society, with the specific application to the current divisive post-war landscape within Colombia.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

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

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Academia