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BridgingBot Uses AI Mediation to Turn Toxic Online Spaces Into Common Ground
Jeffrey Fossett
Plurality Institute
5/4/25


How Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, and others propose cultivating prosocial behavior online
Glen Weyl et al.
Microsoft Research
3/14/25


California to launch first-in-the-nation digital democracy effort
Governor Gavin Newsom
The State of California
2/28/25


The 'Digitalist Papers' presents possible futures the AI revolution might produce
Audrey Tang et al.
Stanford's Digital Economy Lab
9/24/24
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8.1.25
SF10x Hackathon
San Francisco 10x Party
Attention hackers, builders, and community organizers: This city has many problems, but the fundamentals are truly great. Join us for a civics x tech x ai hackathon to make San Francisco 10x better and win up to $5000 in prizes.
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8.2.25
Agentic AI Summit 2025
Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence
The summit will bring together visionary leaders from academia, pioneering entrepreneurs, experts from leading AI organizations, venture capitalists, and policymakers to explore, discuss, and collaboratively shape the exciting future of AI and Agentic AI.
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8.6.25
ACM Collective Intelligence 25
Association for Computing Machinery
ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 brings together a wide range of disciplines to discuss the shared or group intelligence that emerges when individuals work together, often with the help of technology. This year’s theme focuses on Diverse Intelligence. We invite research and perspectives on how we can deeply understand and build systems that incorporate animal, human, machine and hybrid intelligence to achieve a level of problem-solving capability that surpasses the abilities of any single member.
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