Projects - Ethical tech and responsible tech

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While the first generations of tech-for-good work took a solutionist approach to addressing existing problems with new technology, scholars and activists are driving growing awareness of the problems with technology itself. By exposing the negative consequences, intended or otherwise, of tech, these communities draw attention to issues with tech-centric approaches. Not all of the projects here adopt an ethics lens in their work, but we use it here for simplicity's sake.

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Dark Patterns in AI Chatbots: A Taxonomy to Inform Better Design

Washington, DC

In this report, we examine AI chatbots through the lens of dark patterns — deceptive or manipulative design choices that may undermine user autonomy or well-being.

CivicHalls

New Delhi

Civic Governance Platform

Digital Justice Fund

Europe

The Digital Justice Fund works towards nurturing an ecosystem where groups resisting violent technological harms and imagining more nourishing relationships with technologies have the resources they need to dream, organise, build and thrive towards liberatory digital presents and futures.

Funding The Web

Brussels

The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy.

Public AI White Paper

In this paper, we set out a vision for a different path for AI.

Breaking Free

Oslo

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

Entidad.io

Los Angeles

Community Technology Based on Data Sovereignty

Unmio

Los Angeles

Serve your community. Protect their privacy.

Take Back Tech

Atlanta, GA

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, artists, tech workers, academics, lawyers, and more to rally together and strategize our next power-building moves.

LaSuite.coop sociétaire

France 🇫🇷

Devenez sociétaire de notre coopérative et prenez part à la gouvernance de vos outils numériques.

Fediverse Apps

Discover apps for your favorite fediverse platforms

ActivityPub tech spec

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format.

Understanding Recommenders

Understanding Recommenders is a research-driven effort to demystify recommender systems and their impact on society.

LawZero

Montreal, QC, Canada

LawZero is a nonprofit startup developing technical solutions for highly-capable, safe-by-design AI systems.

PeerTube

France 🇫🇷

A French non-profit alternative to Big Tech's video platforms

Fondation INRIA

48 Rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France

Nous rapprochons le monde académique, celui de l'entreprise et la société civile pour soutenir des projets de recherche et d'innovation qui améliorent la vie des gens et le fonctionnement de notre société grâce au numérique.

REAL ML

Oregon

REAL ML supports and advances interdisciplinary research that holds the use of algorithms and AI technologies to account—with a focus on the perspectives and experiences of marginalized communities

Fractured reality: How democracy can win the global struggle over the information space

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien) 🇧🇪

The report examines the evolving impact of digital technologies on European democracy.

Plurality Institute

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Plurality Institute develops and experiments with plural technologies by convening researchers and collaborators from a range of fields including computer science, political ethics, sociology, and government.

AT Protocol

Building the social internet.

Change Agent AI

Bay Area, California

Values-based AI built for nonprofits, unions & campaigns

"Dear Algo" on Threads

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA

An AI feature test on Threads that lets users talk to their recommender feed algorithm and make requests in natural language. The requests are viewable by other users.

Bluesky Custom Feeds

Seattle

Custom feeds allow third party developers to create entirely new feeds that users can install.

"Your Custom Feed" feature on YouTube

Mountain View, CA

A YouTube feature to let users customize recommendations on their Home feed. Currently available to signed-in viewers in the U.S. on the YouTube mobile app or desktop in English (May 2026).

UNESCO Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms

UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, France

Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms

Modular Legislative Components to Help Spur Algorithmic Feeds that Put People First – Knight-Georgetown Institute

Washington, DC

A new legislative toolkit from the Knight-Georgetown Institute equips lawmakers with modular components to support the development of legislation that encourages algorithmic feeds that put people first.

Competing Visions Shared Futures (CPDP)

Brussels

As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection.

Project Liberty Alliance

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

The Project Liberty Alliance consists of over 175+ organizations—tech companies, policy groups, impact initiatives, academic institutions, and more—committed to a people-centered internet.

Technologists for Democracy

Toronto

We are Canadians keeping tech accountable, towards better democracy for all.

Cables of Resistance

Berlin

Movements Conference against Big Tech

Brief For The Hearing At The European Parliament On DSA Enforcement And The Protection Of Minors

Warsaw

In this brief, prepared for the purpose of the hearing organised by EPP and Renew on DSA Enforcement and the protection of minors, we tried to match the most promising claims made by VLOPs with evidence coming from independent research or civil society investigations.

Bridgy Fed

San Francisco

Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky.

Mozilla Corporation

Mountain View, CA

Putting people before profits since 1998

Modal Foundation

The Hague

Open social tech in the public interest

WeLivedit.AI

London

Centering lived experience in managing online toxicity

RightsDDact

London

Supply chain compliance solution

Ethical tech and responsible tech

Thaura

United States of America 🇺🇸

Meet Thaura, your ethical AI companion

Anthropic Societal Impacts team

Working closely with the Anthropic Policy and Safeguards teams, Societal Impacts is a technical research team that explores how AI is used in the real world.