AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago: "A new study has used machine learning to identify over 100 possible 'crews' of officers in the Chicago Police Department responsible for a disproportionate share of police misconduct and violence."
Augmented Democracy: "Augmented Democracy (AD) is the idea of using digital twins to expand the ability of people to participate directly in a large volume of democratic decisions."
AI, Media and Democracy Lab: "We are an Ethical Legal Societal laboratory focused on the implications of AI for Media and Democracy."
New research shows what it takes to make society change for the better: "They created a mathematical model using an innovative combination of epidemiological and evolutionary techniques, which simulates a society where agents live in groups and adopt the beneficial behavior of peers—behavior that, given the right conditions, can spread virally, but not if the institutional costs are too high."
The Consilience Project: "Restoring public trust in good faith communications is possible. But it requires both a cultural shift toward civic virtues and a redesign of the technologies and social processes that structure civic discourse."
OECD.AI: Policy Observatory: "The OECD AI Principles promote use of AI that is innovative and trustworthy and that respects human rights and democratic values."
AI for society: creating AI that supports equality, transparency, and democracy - The Royal Society: "Democracy is more than the exchange of information in campaigns and elections. It draws from a collection of institutions and civic interactions. Democracy persists because institutions preserve it: in the press and the electoral process, but also in courts, in schools, in hospitals, and more. If democracy resides in institutions, then how can AI support them? There is a need for spaces where people can develop civic networks or new civic institutions that allow people from different backgrounds to engage as citizens on common endeavours, as well as interacting online."
A Manifesto In Defence of Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Age of “Artificial Intelligence” - The Athens Roundtable: "... we, a group of scientists and stakeholders from both sides of the Atlantic, warn that technological solutionism should not replace democracy, that the primacy of democracy must be re-affirmed and that citizens must be re-empowered through institutions of countervailing power. Without immediate action, democracy runs the risk of faltering in the face of increasingly dominant AI-enabled platforms and inadequate governance structures."
How AI can empower communities and strengthen democracy - Venture Beat analysis: "... artificial intelligence is capable of not just value extraction, but individual and societal empowerment. While AI solutions often propagate bias, they can also be used to detect that bias. As Dr. Safiya Noble has pointed out, artificial intelligence is one of the critical human rights issues of our lifetimes."
Artificial Intelligence: Ethics & Societal Challenges - Coursera course: "We discuss why democracy is important, and how AI could hamper public democratic discussion, but also how it can help improve democracy. We will for instance talk about how social media could play in the hands of authoritarian regimes and present some ideas on how to make use of AI tools to develop the functioning of democracy."
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy - Heinrich Böll Stiftung: "... democracy as an institutional arrangement that aims to bring about collective self-governance. Representation is key to democracy, and if we wish to have democratic representation, we need to have procedural arrangements that support the free and reflexive transmission of citizens’ voices and preferences to the political institutions ('public will formation'), and institutions that can be held accountable even if no actual elections are taking place."
Cliodynamics: "Cliodynamics is a transdisciplinary area of research that integrates cultural evolution, economic history/cliometrics, macrosociology, the mathematical modeling of historical processes during the longue durée, and the construction and analysis of historical databases."
Simulations and Games in Economics Education: "Through a simulation game, students may participate directly in a market by managing a simulated firm and making decisions on price and production to maximize profits."
Mozilla.AI: "We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem."