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The new generation of user-friendly generative AI tools that allow people to create entire applications, essays, videos, images, songs, and more from simple prompts.
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Claude skills for journalism
Montclair, NJA curated collection of Claude Code skills for journalists, researchers, academics, and media professionals.
Researchers developed a value-based method for prompting LLMs that uses culturally grounded survey-derived value profiles instead of demographic proxies, significantly improving the modelsโ ability to predict and reproduce diverse population opinions across countries, especially in underrepresented cultures.
The Japanese government has open sourced portions of its generative AI suite.
Mapping LLMs Tools for Public Discourse, Pluralism & Social Cohesion
United States of America ๐บ๐ธPlurality Institute and Council on Technology and Social Cohesion gathered over seventy researchers and technologists to answer the question: how can we harness that enormous power to foster public discourse, pluralism, and social cohesion in digital spaces?
LLMs Tools for Public Discourse
United States of America ๐บ๐ธThis is an evolving dataset of LLM Tools that are used to support Public Discourse across digital media platforms.
Civic AI Tools
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)Open-source tools for AI-powered civic data access
Confer
United States of America ๐บ๐ธSignal founder Moxie Marlinspike's new open source, end-to-end encrypted AI chat
Our findings suggest that the persuasive power of current and near-future AI is likely to stem less from model scale or personalization and more from post-training and prompting techniques that mobilize an LLMโs ability to rapidly generate information during conversation.
Madison AI
NevadaThe Madison AIโข platform unites your agencyโs scattered data and systems into knowledge AI to research anything and draft staff reports/memos in minutes.
UK Asylum Changes Response
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ๐ฌ๐งSimply record your thoughts, and our tool will instantly transform your voice note into a unique, professional letter to your MP - ready to send in seconds.
The Common News
ChicagoThe Common News makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.
The PSAi
Columbia University, New York, NYThe PSAi is a new campaign by Columbia Journalism Review to use viral AI-generated images to teach people what to look for to ascertain real photos from fake. And it launched with a music video.
Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms
Cambridge, MAOnline discourse faces challenges in facilitating substantive and productive political conversations. Recent technologies have explored the potential of generative AI to promote civil discourse, encourage the development of mutual understanding in a discussion, produce . . .
Successful integration of generative AI for civic engagement must be powered by people who use their judgment to validate outputs, mitigate potential errors, contextualize results, and build trust between the government and the community.
Ask The Post AI
The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DCAsk The Post AI delivers AI-generated answers from published Washingtonย Postย reporting.
FactBot by Snopes
United States of America ๐บ๐ธSnopes is using an AI model combined with Snopes Archives to answer questions
ETH Zurich's LLM
ZรผrichETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the โAlpsโ supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.
IndiaAI Mission
India (Bhฤrat) ๐ฎ๐ณThe 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.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-led multi-stakeholderย initiative on Open-Source Generative AI for Public Services aims to develop an end-to-end, open-source implementation framework that enables public sector stakeholders to easily build and deploy their own GenAI solutions using modular, open-source software blueprints.
PollFinder.ai
United States of America ๐บ๐ธPollFinder.ai leverages large language models to help newsrooms collect and organize both horserace and issue polls, enabling journalists to write stories that are informed by an up-to-date aggregation of public opinion polls.
Pair Chat
Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌEmpowering officers with Pair Chat: higher quality work, faster decisions, and better citizen experiences.
Prune
San FranciscoAI-powered takedowns. We weaponize LLMs against digital exploitation
Sensemaker
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)Sensemaker is an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, designed to demonstrate how Google AI can help make sense of large-scale conversations. Sensemaker empowers users to categorize, summarize, and identify areas of agreement and disagreement in any discussion โ turning conversation into clear, actionable insights, quickly.
Productive Ways to Use GenAI for Civil Servants
2300 N Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20037This playbook is designed specifically for civil servants, offering practical guidance for using generative AI (GenAI) to help them perform their work more effectively and efficiently.
Google Maps Platform
Mountain View, CAGoogle Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform
Local Minutes
VermontA chatbot AI that has access to millions of pages of municipal documents from small towns throughout Vermont.
Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders
United States of America ๐บ๐ธHuman Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker
Bridging Dictionary
MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA[A] dynamic prototype from MITโs Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide
Red teaming large language models (LLMs) for resilience to scientific disinformation
United States of America ๐บ๐ธThe red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).
The Students' Assembly on Gen AI in Higher Education
The University of EdinburghIn the context of rising concerns regarding GenAI use, a two-day deliberative process was organized and hosted at the University of Edinburghโs Edinburgh Futures Institute. A total of 17 students from 6 disciplines, gathered and deliberated on the question โHow can we reimagine teaching, learning, and research methods to align with the advancements in AI and ethics?โ.
The Spinoza project initially aims to create a tool for journalists based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance media coverage of climate change and ecological transition, all while relying on reliable sources.
Consult (GOV.UK)
10 Downing StreetConsult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.
What the Fed?
United States of America ๐บ๐ธAI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing
Naskvoz
Russian Federation ๐ท๐บ"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.
Dokopalsya!
Russian Federation ๐ท๐บDokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.
UrbanistAI
EuropeThe platform to reimagine the future of our cities.
Open Politics Project
BerlinThe mission is to create an open-source data science and AI toolkit to analyse, summarise, and visualise political information.
"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."
Synthetic Memories
Barcelonaan initiative aimed at recovering lost or undocumented visual memories using AI image generation.
Seelaw
LondonA tool that provides targeted legislative insights and AI-powered analysis, delivering updates and impact assessments on legislation.
GOV.UK Chat
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ๐ฌ๐งThe bot allows people to ask questions about government services and receive information on accessing student loans, benefits and legal questions.
The MLCommons AI Safety working group is composed of a global consortium of industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civil society experts committed to building a harmonized approach to AI safety.
CoCounsel
United States of America ๐บ๐ธThe First AI Legal Assistant, Made for Lawyers
Chat2024
United States of America ๐บ๐ธAn AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.
One of multiple studies in the US using artificial intelligence to analyze the tone and word choice police officers use, to determine whether it leads to unnecessarily escalations with the public.
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