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Technologies that train models to autonomously support or function independently of direct human effort.
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- Civic AI Prompt Library
- The threat and promise of generative AI in the regulatory process.
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- 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
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A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Public Interest AI world map
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, InvalidenstraĂźe, Berlin, GermanyThis interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.
Public Interest AI explainer site
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, InvalidenstraĂźe, Berlin, GermanyA project map of Public Interest AI and related research
An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media
First AI-written speech delivered by US congressman
Capitol HillRepresentative for Massachusetts Jake Auchincloss used ChatGPT to help introduce legislation supporting AI research
Equitech Scholars
Chicago, ILAn 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact
An article tracking the development of pro-social deepfakes, despite the vast majority consisting of pornographic images of women
Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation UK (CDEI)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models
Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.
ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office. For every toxic tweet that passes a certain threshold, the bot posts a “positivitweet.” ParityBOT has been deployed in Canada during the federal election in 2019, and the Alberta election in 2019. During this time: +245,000 tweets were processed 393 candidates were tracked +20,000 positive tweets sent
Pinpoint
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.
CĂvica Digital
MonterreyTechnology to strengthen citizens - Transforma a tu organizaciĂłn en aliada de la ciudadanĂa.
Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.
Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.
Voy a extraer por vos los subtĂtulos generados automáticamente por Youtube.
Biden Administration Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USANon-binding guidance from the White House
JusticeAI
Palo AltoJusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.
LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.
Chequeado's WhatsApp bot
Latin AmericaLatin American fact-checking organization
No Minor Futures is a public education campaign amplifying children's hopes and fears about AI technology. It uses animations, podcasts, workshops, and social media.
A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.
Dark Data Project
TorontoThe Dark Data Project helps organizations uncover, deobfuscate, semantify and analyze problematic datasets
SunTec.AI
CaliforniaSunTec.AI is an experienced data annotation company that offers premium data annotation services across diverse industry verticals. We create customized business-specific solutions for advanced domains, like AI & ML, robotics, healthcare, and technology.
Civic Signal
AfricaCivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.
NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil society.
This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.
Assis
BrazilVocĂŞ sabia que muitos problemas da gestĂŁo pĂşblica podem ser solucionados com InteligĂŞncia Artificial ?
Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond
Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.
Urban AI is a Think Tank that proposes ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of urban AI.
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.
Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.
DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.
AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)
MIT Media LabFor entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.
My Data Rights
South AfricaA feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights
an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.
GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.Â
CivicPlus government Chatbot
302 South 4th Street, Suite 500 Manhattan, Kansas 66502With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.
Feminist.AI works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all.
Using integrated sensors and artificial intelligence, Livio AI enhances your listening experiences, proactively manages your health and provides access to information to simplify your life.
#SelfCare is a free, simple, and beautiful AI companion for joy, self-connection, and hope.
A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically
A framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability
AI Resources
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FranceAn evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes
An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.
A People’s Guide to AI
4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.
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