KT4D’s Digital Democracy Lab

Calling software engineers and developers: do you think you can datafy democratic processes?

Join the Digital Democracy Lab at Beta for a hands-on workshop to explore how we can ensure that both people and democracy stay in the loop in AI systems.

The workshop will offer an interactive environment to apply your technical skills to critical questions of AI governance. Participants will have the opportunity to influence best practices for integrating AI into democratic processes and democratic stewardship of AI systems.

During the interactive session, you will:

• Gain hands-on experience with the KT4D Digital Democracy Demonstrator (DDD), including backend access, to understand its architecture and features.
  Deepen your understanding of “meaningful / trustworthy frictions” and their role in ensuring democratic stewardship of AI systems.
• Engage in a creative challenge to design and prototype meaningful frictions for specific areas of the DDD, pushing the boundaries of human-AI collaboration.
• Collaborate to tackle the complex balance between system efficiency, trustworthiness, and democratic values in AI development.
• Contribute directly to improving AI-enabled democratic concerns by proposing innovative friction implementations.
• Gain insights into the societal implications of AI in democratic processes.