Civic Tech Field Guide
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Technologies that train models to autonomously support or function independently of direct human effort.
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- The threat and promise of generative AI in the regulatory process.
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- 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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Public Interest AI at HIIG
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyAlexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft
AI Now Institute
New York City, NY, USAThe AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
AI Initiative
Cambridge, MA, USAThe AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.
AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.
A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.
Algorithm Tips
Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USAResources and leads for investigating algorithms in society
Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.
In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia. The report explores the question: How can civil society participate in AI governance or intervene in other ways to safeguard AI safety and security?
Doublethink Labs
Taipei, TaiwanDoublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.
Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue
Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.
The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.
AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
Stanford Predicting Poverty
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USACOMBINING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POVERTY
a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms
Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai
Call Time
Los Angeles, CAOnline political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.
The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform
Tinder bot used in UK elections
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)We used a computer program to talk to young people on the dating app about the U.K. election. The results were amazing.
VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers
Conversation AI
Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAConversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.
Rosie
BrazilAn artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.
Perspective
Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAPerspective is an API that uses machine learning to spot abuse and harassment online.
Local Voices Network (LVN)
25 Kingston St, BostonDeveloped by the non-profit Cortico, the Local Voices Network (LVN) is a unique physical-digital network designed to bring under-heard community voices, perspectives and stories to the center of a healthier public dialogue.
The Partnership on AI was established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society.
US Artificial Intelligence for Citizen Services
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAArtificial Intelligence for Citizen Services unites public service managers and innovative U.S. businesses in evaluating and building smart automatio
Hiring people from the bottom of the pyramid to complete digital work - SamaHub is Samasource’s training data annotation platform used to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. The platform ensures high-quality, human-powered training data and validation for world leading AI teams.
Legal Robot
548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, USALegal tech startup using Artificial Intelligence to make Legal Documents less painful & improve Access to Justice.
Seeing AI
Redmond, WAA free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects
Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.
AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers
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European AI & Society Fund
Rue Royale 941000, Brussels, BelgiumThe European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe. Our long-term vision is to promote an ecosystem of European public interest and civil society organisations working on policy and technology, based on a diversity of actors and a plurality of goals that represents society as a whole.
In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.
Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKA major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.
Health Complaints Assist
AustraliaHealth Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.
Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.
Facebook Suicide Prevention
1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USAFacebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders.
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