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Georgetown's Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Citizenship (AIDC) offers a humanistic, citizen-centered perspective on AI and democracy.

MARCH 25: AIDC, the Georgetown Democracy Initiative and @gupolitics.bsky.social are hosting “Making AI Work for the People” as part of Tech & Society Week — a two-panel discussion on AI in America and the world! ⏰ 5pm | 📍 Georgetown Capitol Campus, 125 E St NW RSVP below!

Making AI Work for the People

Co-hosted by AIDC, the Georgetown Democracy Initiative and Georgetown’s Institute for Politics and Public Service, this two-part panel discussion...

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From Kenneth Payne's recent paper on the nuclear tendencies of LLMs: "Claude and Gemini especially treated nuclear weapons as legitimate strategic options, not moral thresholds, typically discussing nuclear use in purely instrumental terms." Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2602.147...

AI Arms and Influence: Frontier Models Exhibit Sophisticated Reasoning in Simulated Nuclear Crises

Today's leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstr...

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📢 AIDC’s Community Fellowship is now open! We invite DC-area researchers working in the humanities to apply for the 2026-2027 fellowship on the theme “Truth, Trust and Democratic Judgement.”