Projects - Artificial Intelligence

Envision

Envision empowers people who are blind or have low vision to access everyday visual information for themselves. Because it isn’t just information. It’s knowledge, independence and possibility.

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Blitz AI

Blitz helps you automate plan reviews to expedite building permits and approvals for homes, offices and commercial buildings across the USA with our AI-powered pre-check and plan review software.

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AI and Government Workers: Use Cases in Public Administration

This report scans the landscape of AI use in the public sector at the state and local level, evaluating its benefits and harms through the examples of chatbots and automated tools that transcribe audio, summarize policies, and determine eligibility for benefits.

AI Safety Index

The Future of Life Institute's AI Safety Index provides an independent assessment of seven leading AI companies' efforts to manage both immediate harms and catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.

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Public Encounters and Government Chatbots: When Servers Talk to Citizens

Europe

This paper examines emerging experiences with chatbots in government interactions, with a focus on exploring what public administration practitioners and scholars should expect from chatbots in public encounters.

Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)

San Francisco

The Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) is a nonpartisan think tank that engages experts across the U.S., allied, and partner nations to deliver concrete, technically sound policy research.

YouTube AI Age Verification

YouTube

Courtroom5

United States of America 🇺🇸

Courtroom5 helps people represent themselves in US civil courts.

Multiracial Democracy Project

The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC

Through research, analysis, convenings, and public education, the Project produces solutions that facilitate our nation’s transition to a well-functioning democracy that truly represents our increasingly diverse population.

People's AI Action Plan

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

A broad coalition of 130+ tech, economic justice, consumer protection, labor, environmental justice, and civil society organizations launched the People’s AI Action Plan to provide a direct counter-weight to President Trump’s industry-backed AI executive orders and agenda.

Converj Elections

AI-generated election guides

Extract

10 Downing Street

Using AI to unlock historic planning data

The Washington Post's AI Policy

The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DC

We are exploring AI as a tool to speed and amplify Post reporting and deliver our journalism in novel and compelling ways.

Ask The Post AI

The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DC

Ask The Post AI delivers AI-generated answers from published Washington Post reporting.

Higgsfield SOUL ID

Now you can train a digital double on your own photos to create ultra-consistent, fashion-grade visuals across every single generation.

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FactBot by Snopes

United States of America 🇺🇸

Snopes is using an AI model combined with Snopes Archives to answer questions

Meta Smart Glasses

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with AI integration

Be My AI™

Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark

Be My AI™ brings state-of-the-art visual descriptions to people who are blind or have low vision. It’s powerful, practical, and designed to make accessibility simple.

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Be My Eyes on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses

Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark

Hands free access to Be My Eyes through Meta AI Glasses.

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Demoxis

London

AI-powered civic engagement platform reconnecting people and power — one voice at a time.

BSC AI Factory

Barcelona

The AI Factory is a large-scale initiative led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), designed to position Europe at the forefront of global AI development, and deployment.

Swiss AI Initiative

Zürich

The Swiss AI Initiative is operated by SNAI and the largest open science/open source effort for AI foundation models worldwide.

Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI)

Zürich

ETH Zurich and EPFL are launching the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI) to provide a national perspective on AI-based research, education and innovation.

Sarvam AI

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

Company selected to build India's sovereign AI

Inter-Parliamentary Union Guidelines for AI in parliaments

The Guidelines for AI in parliaments offer a comprehensive framework for parliaments to understand and implement AI responsibly and effectively.

Rwanda to launch AI-powered mobile app for legal texts and case law

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StaffLink

Washington, DC

An experimental tool with information relevant to the work of junior staff in the U.S. Congress.

IndiaAI Mission

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

The IndiaAI Mission aims to build a comprehensive ecosystem that fosters AI innovation by democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital, ensuring socially impactful AI projects, and promoting ethical AI.

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The Estonian Parliament trains MPs and staff in using AI tools

Estonia (Eesti Vabariik) 🇪🇪

Plus mention of an internal AI tool for Parliament

Interoperability Test Bed AI assistant

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien) 🇧🇪

The Interoperability Test Bed launches an online AI assistant, trained on its official documentation, to support test developers and users of its services.

UK Google partnership to upskill 100,000 civil servants in tech and AI

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

"This strategy is boosted by a target to upskill tens of thousands of public sector workers in AI and digital by 2030 through a new Google Cloud training programme proposed to run in parallel to the partnership, helping to hit the Prime Minister’s target to have 1 in 10 civil servants working in tech roles by the same date."

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Woolaroo

United States of America 🇺🇸

Explore endangered languages using AI. Let your camera translate the world around you.

Democracy Levels

San Francisco

A shared language for democratic AI

SentimentTube Analytics

Unlock insights from YouTube comments with the power of AI

YouTube

Pathfinder (concept mapper)

Enter in two concepts and it uses AI to chart paths between them

Code for America's Building a Practice of Responsible AI

San Francisco

When we begin any new engagement around the use of AI in government, we’re dedicated to following a core set of principles that center ethics, safety, and impact.

Government AI Landscape Assessment

San Francisco

Most states are navigating early or developing phases in these categories, building foundational capabilities while defining governance structures and strategic direction. But a few have emerged as national leaders—setting up dedicated AI offices, launching sophisticated pilot programs, training their staff, and building out infrastructure.

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Zürich Innovation Sandbox for AI

Zürich

The Innovation Sandbox for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a test environment for the implementation of AI projects.

EUSAiR Project

European Union (EU)

EUSAiR is a two-year project, funded by the European Union’s Digital Europe program, which will support the implementation of AI regulatory sandboxes across the EU to foster AI innovation and competitiveness, improve legal certainty for innovators and facilitate regulatory compliance with the AI Act.

AI on Demand

Paris

Europe's diverse AI community brings together all individuals and organisations interested in contributing to or benefiting from today's AI capabilities. Researchers, developers, entrepreneurs, citizens, civil servants, and AI experts are invited to engage with AI Ecosystem stakeholders and access multiple resources and solutions. Identifying personally relevant activities and updates can be challenging amidst the myriad of happenings. The on-demand platform aims to deliver an easily navigable overview of the community, showcasing interesting developments. Users can discover the best of what is being developed within the community and take the opportunity to engage with leading stakeholders.

European Union

EU AI Act Article 57: AI Regulatory Sandboxes

European Union (EU)

Legislation requiring Member States to establish AI regulatory sandboxes

Sandboxes for AI: Tools for a New Frontier

Geneva

This report summarizes the findings of a study on sandboxes in the field of Artificial Intelligence — those that have been announced, are in development, or have been completed.