Please join us for the next GETTING-Plurality Research Workshop, convened by the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. In this session, you'll hear from presenting authors Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, and Emillie de Keulenaar on their recent paper, “Prosocial Media.”

On April 10-11, 2025, the Knight Institute will host a symposium to examine the risks that advanced artificial intelligence systems pose to democratic freedoms, to discuss sociotechnical as well as technical interventions to mitigate these risks, and to identify ways in which these systems may be employed to support democracy. The symposium, “Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms,” is a collaboration between the Knight Institute and the Institute’s Senior AI Advisor Seth Lazar. It will take place in person at Columbia University’s Lee C. Bollinger Forum and will be livestreamed.

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.