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Beth Simone Noveck
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BLOG: https://rebootdemocracy.ai. All things AI policy, democracy, government. BIO: https://thegovlab.org/beth-simone-noveck.html. Prof #AIforImpact #InnovateUS @Northeastern @BurnesCenter @TheGovLab, Chief AI Strategist @NJGOV, @OSTP44 BLOG
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News That Caught Our Eye: the weekly review of AI + governance news that matters: rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaug...
Reboot Weekly: From Data Governance to the Genesis Mission—AI’s Democratic Tests - News That Caught Our Eye
This week, our new Research Radar warns that the White House’s Genesis Mission to merge federal AI, data, and supercomputing power could sideline universities, communities, and public oversight. In a
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December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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JOIN ME starting now 2 pm EST for Listening to the Public with AI. Part of the @thegovlab.org @innovateus.bsky.social series on deepending public engagement with AI. innovate-us.org/listening-to...
Workshop: Listening to the Public with AI
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December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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We talk a lot about evaluating AI outputs, such as safety tests, red teaming, and alignment. But far less about the data practices that shape those outputs in the first place.

Read more by Stefaan Verhulst and Friederike Schüür→ rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/toward-...

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Toward AI Governance That Works: Examining the Building Blocks of AI and the Impacts
As governments and international bodies race to establish guardrails for AI, most of the global agenda still focuses on managing what AI systems produce—their outputs. This article argues that such an...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The White House debuted its national AI platform for scientific discovery with a 100% stock footage promo.
But the real risks aren't clichés:
1️⃣ Centralizing research with no democratic oversight
2️⃣ Building a corporate, closed environment
3️⃣ Ignoring research for communities
Read more: bit.ly/4iyoGwp
Research Radar: The White House Wants a Scientific Genesis. It May Trigger a Democratic Exodus
The Trump Administration’s Genesis Mission aims to unify federal supercomputers, datasets, and AI systems into a single national platform for scientific discovery. But as Beth Simone Noveck argues, th...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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A national AI “moonshot” with no public input? My #ResearchRadar analysis asks hard questions about the #GenesisMission and who it really serves.

Full piece → rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
Research Radar: The White House Wants a Scientific Genesis. It May Trigger a Democratic Exodus
The Trump Administration’s Genesis Mission aims to unify federal supercomputers, datasets, and AI systems into a single national platform for scientific discovery. But as Beth Simone Noveck argues, th...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Tackling AI’s risks must also happen in the messy middle, reviewing the influence on human judgment.

Dane Gabmbrell and I share for #AIforGovernance Monday: we need transparency, algorithm registers, redress routes, and trained public servants.

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Accountable Algorithms: Blending Individual Rights and Collective Oversight in Government AI
AI is already shaping government decisions, but bright-line bans on automated decisions are not enough to manage the complex “middle space” where most automation now operates. Effective governance req...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Today's #GlobalAIWatch blog by @celiazafra.bsky.social and @pr3ssh.net h.net explores how transparency fails when public data is unusable. The QHLD tool shows what Spain's Congress really prioritizes and why civic tech struggles to adopt AI.

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Is Your Parliament Transparent or Just Performing? Making Public Data Understandable Opens the Door to Citizen Engagement
Political Watch’s “What Our Representatives Do” tool (QHLD) organizes thousands of congressional initiatives into clear, searchable themes, making political priorities visible, comparable, and actiona...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I am redoing the Solving Public Problems course for the AI era. I want your input: What should every public problem-solver learn now? What risks or opportunities do you see?

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Solving Public Problems with Artificial Intelligence
The Solving Public Problems course has helped learners worldwide tackle complex challenges. The course teaches how to leverage technology, data, and collective wisdom in our communities to design powe...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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On the #RebootDemocracy Blog, unions are setting real limits on surveillance, algorithmic management, and AI-driven job cuts, while also using AI to strengthen organizing and worker voice.

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Big Tech Wants AI Without Rules. Here’s How Workers are Fighting Back
AI is reshaping the workplace faster than public policy can keep up, often in ways that expand corporate power, weaken worker rights, and undermine democratic oversight. But across sectors, workers an...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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“Expertise comes from experience and experience comes from experimentation,” says @thegovlab.org @burnescenter.bsky.social Prof and Boston CIO Santi Garces at the European Cities Conference about the need to try new ways of working.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Miss the news this week in AI + democracy + governance? We didn’t. Here are the must-reads. ⬇️

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News That Caught Our Eye #85 - News That Caught Our Eye
Princeton’s Mihir Kshirsagar breaks down why predictive-policing algorithms fail and how to distinguish meaningful diagnostic tools from misguided prediction products. Congress renews its push to bloc
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November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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From citizens’ assemblies to data cooperatives, Maine is piloting the future of democratic infrastructure. Highlights from the Foundations for the Digital Commons convening ⬇️

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Foundations for the Digital Commons
In late October, the Roux Institute hosted Foundations for the Digital Commons with Bernstein Shur and RadicalxChange, convening technologists, policymakers, civic innovators, journalists, and funders...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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New in our #ResearchRadar series: today’s AI agents don’t reason the way our markets and regulatory systems assume.

Elana Banin breaks down new research from Hadfield & Koh, and why it matters for democratic governance.

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Research Radar: An Economy of AI Agents
AI agents are beginning to make market-shaping decisions. Hadfield and Koh’s new study reveals why this shift is significant. Current agents do not reason like economists, do not reflect human prefere...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Predictive policing is failing because it predicts police activity, not crime.

A new piece on the #RebootDemocracy Blog by Mihir Kshirsagar of @princetoncitp.bsky.social breaks down how diagnostic data can actually reduce harm and improve safety.

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Why “Good Guys” Shouldn’t Use AI like the “Bad Guys”: The Failure of Predictive Policing
This essay argues that predictive policing continues to fail not because police departments lack data, but because they are using the wrong kind of data, in the wrong way. Applying low-stakes commerci...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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“Design for trust. Build for empathy.”

In a new #GlobalAIWatch piece for the #RebootDemocracy blog, Tarjimly CEO Atif Javed shares how the translation platform utilizes AI to amplify, rather than replace, human connection.

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Designing AI for Trust: Lessons from Tarjimly’s Translation Platform for Humanitarian Action
When refugees needed language support, Tarjimly turned everyday volunteers into lifelines. In this reflection, CEO Atif Javed traces how the platform evolved from a Facebook Messenger experiment into ...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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🇺🇸 On Veterans Day tomorrow we honor those who served.
But behind the flags and parades, the Air Force is quietly turning its bases into AI business parks.

3,000 acres. 50-year leases. No public oversight.

No community input, no oversight, half-century leases. 🧵
Governing AI: The Air Force’s AI Land Rush
The Air Force is quietly auctioning off slices of its bases for private AI data centers. They call it innovation; it looks like privatization. Fifty-year leases, 3,000 acres of military land, and no p...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Fresh reads on how AI is reshaping governance—from civic participation in Brazil to trust and transparency in tech.

Catch this week’s News That Caught Our Eye: rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaug...
News That Caught Our Eye #83 - News That Caught Our Eye
Brazil is pioneering AI-powered participatory governance at scale, processing input from 1.4 million citizens and turning public proposals into policy reports. From Maine’s 33 recommendations for resp
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🇧🇷 Brazil is turning 1.5M civic votes into real policy with AI.

Christiana Freitas & Ricardo Poppi demonstrate how a new open-source system is enabling the processing of public input at scale and strengthening participatory democracy.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The Agentic State is bold and worth reading, but many problems it tackles can be solved without automation.

Before we turn to agents, we need to fix the systems that are being automated.

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Research Radar: The Emperor's New Agents - Why AI Won't Fix Broken Government
The Agentic State is an ambitious and inspiring blueprint for rebuilding government around AI agents that can act and decide autonomously. It powerfully diagnoses real failures in how the public secto...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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We don’t need to fear AI. But we do need to learn how to use it wisely.

In my new post, I ask: What if we treated AI like the fish counter, learning to weigh risks and read the labels?

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The AI Fish Counter: Teaching Ourselves to Use AI—Before It Uses Us
The danger isn’t that AI will make us dumber—it’s that governments, companies, and schools won’t make us smarter with it. As policymakers stall and corporations automate, the burden of using AI wisely...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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AI doomerism misleads. In his latest #RebootDemocracy piece, Dane Gambrell argues we must govern real harms—like surveillance and labor exploitation—not vague fears of “superintelligence.” Read via #GlobalAIWatch: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/governi...
Governing the Undefined: Why the Debate Over Superintelligence Misses the Point
As headlines warn of “superintelligent AI” threatening human extinction, a new open letter reignites familiar fears. But beneath the apocalyptic rhetoric lies a deeper problem. The narrative around ar...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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In today’s powerful new #RebootDemocracy post, civic technologists Neil Kleiman, Mai-Ling Garcia, and Eric Gordon reflect on the hard lessons from the past and propose a new governance model: Adaptation, Listening, and Trust.

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Re-thinking AI: How a Group of Civic Technologists Discovered the Power of AI to Rebuild Trust in Government
After two years of research, the RethinkAI collaborative released Making AI Work for the Public—a comprehensive field review of how U.S. governments adopt AI. Since 2019, over 1,600 AI-related bills h...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Those in NYC: Curb is putting state propaganda (Newsmax) on Taxi TV! Delete the app — use your card or cash to pay for taxis.
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM