Seminar: Civic AI
Matt Stempeck discusses Civic AI
How specifically are civic tech platforms introducing AI features to enhance democracy? Especially within participation platforms? And will these efforts be enough against a broader context of AI harms (supplanting human involvement in things, disrupting institutions, and being used against democratic actors)?
For the past nine years, Matt has curated the Civic Tech Field Guide (https://civictech.guide/), the world’s largest and most open collection of democracy tech tools, data, and programs. Between caretaking the Civic Tech Graveyard of projects that are no longer with us, and collecting over 200 examples of civic AI (https://civictech.guide/ai/).
He brings experience building civic tech at tech giants, activist organizations, city government partnerships, and media companies to keep an eye on what’s working, and what really isn’t.
More about Metagov Seminar:
The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.
The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.
The seminar is planned through the #metagov-seminar channel on the Metagov Slack. Participate by joining our community.
Time: every Wednesday at 12:00pm ET (GMT-4)
Location: Online. See our Research Seminars Series for meeting information
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